[NUTCH-559] NTLM, Basic and Digest Authentication schemes for web/proxy server

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: fetcher
• Assignee: Dogacan Guney
• Reporter: Susam Pal
• Created: 24/Sep/07 18:28
• Updated: 10/Apr/09 12:29
• Resolved: 04/Jan/08 19:50

Description

Added basic, digest and NTLM authentication schemes to protocol-httpclient. The authentication schemes can be configured for proxy server as well as web servers of a domain. HTTP authentication can take place over HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1 and HTTPS.

The authentication guide can be found here: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/HttpAuthenticationSchemes.

Issue Links

• is related to: NUTCH-481 http.content.limit is broken in the protocol-httpclient plugin
• is related to: NUTCH-560 protocol-httpclient reading more bytes than http.content.limit
• is related to: NUTCH-561 HttpClient plugin does not work with NTLM authentication
• is related to: NUTCH-539 HttpClient plugin does not work with BasicAuthentication