AFAIK there's no further development in cookie based auth. You'll have to stick to the supported authentication schemes. A solution I found when I was in your situation was to add my crawling server to an ip-based authentication.
On 11/26/10 6:12 AM, Sourabh Kasliwal wrote: > Can any one suggest something on this ?? > > >> Hi, >> >> I have to crawl a website on the internet which requires authentication. >> While going through nutch wiki I found a link >> http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/HttpAuthenticationSchemes >> It describes about how we can connect to simple,digest or ntlm >> authenticated site. >> I have gone through all the steps and tried to crawl the website, but it >> does not help many of the pages are still directed to login page. >> Further while checking the logs for httpclient and httpclient.auth I found >> that it has thrown an Exception >> *org.apache.commons.httpclient.ConnectionPoolTimeoutException: Timeout >> waiting for connection* >> Can someone please explain what is wrong here ?? >> >> I also found another link >> http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/HttpPostAuthentication >> that describes about the steps to build the crawler that crawls Http Post >> authenticated pages >> Is there any new development on this ?. >> >> regards >> Sourabh >> -- Claudio Martella Digital Technologies Unit Research & Development - Analyst TIS innovation park Via Siemens 19 | Siemensstr. 19 39100 Bolzano | 39100 Bozen Tel. +39 0471 068 123 Fax +39 0471 068 129 [email protected] http://www.tis.bz.it Short information regarding use of personal data. According to Section 13 of Italian Legislative Decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003, we inform you that we process your personal data in order to fulfil contractual and fiscal obligations and also to send you information regarding our services and events. Your personal data are processed with and without electronic means and by respecting data subjects' rights, fundamental freedoms and dignity, particularly with regard to confidentiality, personal identity and the right to personal data protection. At any time and without formalities you can write an e-mail to [email protected] in order to object the processing of your personal data for the purpose of sending advertising materials and also to exercise the right to access personal data and other rights referred to in Section 7 of Decree 196/2003. The data controller is TIS Techno Innovation Alto Adige, Siemens Street n. 19, Bolzano. You can find the complete information on the web site www.tis.bz.it.
