Clarify documentation as to how to set up session login for web connector
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Key: CONNECTORS-275
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-275
Project: ManifoldCF
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Documentation, Web connector
Affects Versions: ManifoldCF 0.4
Reporter: Karl Wright
A book reader has this comment, which basically implies that we need to improve
the documentation for the web connector:
"I was excited to get the full version of the online book, but then
disappointed when it referred back to the online doc for setting up logins for
a Web spidering. The online doc is very vague and only gives one example. I've
used Ultraseek's and Google's spider, but I still find the Session login
sequences non-obvious.
I've got a subscription request into the user mailing list, but here's the
parts that are not clear.
I generally understand about using regexes to define sites and sorting out
content pages from login pages.
But it's not clear why there's TWO Regex's per entry. There's a "Login URL"
regex, and also a "Form name/link target" regex.
It's also not clear about the "page type" radio button choices.
For "rediection", am I saying "look for a redirect event", or am I saying "then
DO a redirect to this page".
And for "form name", what if my login page doesn't have a named form? In the
case of the site I'm trying to spider, when your session expires, you manually
go back to an https page and supply your username and password as CGI
parameters. I know this sounds odd, but it's apparently how a number of the
sites we're trying to spider work, some proprietary software.
Karl, I really think the book or Wiki or doc needs 3 or 4 different examples of
login scenarios.
Here's the scenario I'm trying, if you'd like to use it:
Try to fetch: http://site.com/product?id=1234
If you get a redirect to: http://site.com/Main.asp
Note that there's no login form nor link on this page.
Then invoke this login URL:
https://site.com/validate?username=me&password=that&otherArg=something
Note that you can't just visit this page and fill in a form, that gives an
error, it has to be passed in (I think as a GET)
Then record the session cookie and try for /product?id=1234 again.
I realize this is odd, I didn't design it. "
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