Yeah seriously - if NTLM auth (or HTTP Basic for that matter) is supported
natively by Nutch, I'd love to read the documentation on it!

-- Jim

On 10/14/06, Tomi NA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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.

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