Sebastian Nagel created NUTCH-2861:
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Summary: Remove parse-swf
Key: NUTCH-2861
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-2861
Project: Nutch
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: parser, plugin
Affects Versions: 1.18
Reporter: Sebastian Nagel
Fix For: 1.19
We should consider to remove the Shockwafe Flash parser plugin
([parse-swf|https://github.com/apache/nutch/tree/master/src/plugin/parse-swf]):
- Shockwave/[Adobe Flash| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash] reached
[end-of-life|https://helpx.adobe.com/shockwave/shockwave-end-of-life-faq.html]
- major browsers now block playing Flash content
- the plugin is based on 15-year old library
([javaswf|https://github.com/apache/nutch/tree/master/src/plugin/parse-swf/lib]),
not maintained anymore and not available on Maven repository
- it's shipped in binary form also in the source package which contradicts the
[Apache release
policy|https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#source-packages]
Notes:
- should place a notice about the removal in the release not, as parse-tika is
not able to extract textual content from *.swf files
- do not forget to unregister the plugin in
[parse-plugins.xml|https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/6c02da053d8ce65e0283a144ab59586e563608b8/conf/parse-plugins.xml.template#L54]
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