2006/10/14, Toufeeq Hussain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
From internal tests with ntlmaps + Nutch the conclusion we came to was that though it "kinda-works" it puts a huge load on the Nutch server as ntlmaps is a major memory-hog and the mixture of the two leads to performance issues. For a PoC this will do but for production-deployments I would not suggest one goes the ntlmaps way. An alternate would be to have a separate ntlmaps-server ,a dedicated machine acting as the NTLM proxy for the Nutch-box which sits behind it.
I haven't noticed the added resource drain, but then again, I haven't really tested all that much: the constraints on the partical project I implemented the approach weren't very strict. I'll keep my eye on the cpu usage.
The right way would be to use the in-built authentication features of Nutch for Auth based crawling.
Nutch supports ntlm authentication? I see I've got some reading to catch up on... t.n.a.
