HTTP POST Authentication
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                 Key: NUTCH-827
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-827
             Project: Nutch
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: fetcher
    Affects Versions: 1.1, 2.0
            Reporter: Jasper van Veghel
            Priority: Minor


I've created a patch against the trunk which adds support for very rudimentary 
POST-based authentication support. It takes a link from nutch-site.xml with a 
site to POST to and its respective parameters (username, password, etc.). It 
then checks upon every request whether any cookies have been initialized, and 
if none have, it fetches them from the given link.

This isn't perfect but Works For Me (TM) as I generally only need to retrieve 
results from a single domain and so have no cookie overlap (i.e. if the domain 
cookies expire, all cookies disappear from the HttpClient and I can simply 
re-fetch them). A natural improvement would be to be able to specify one 
particular cookie to check the expiration-date against. If anyone is interested 
in this beside me I'd be glad to put some more effort into making this more 
universally applicable.

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