Release 1.3 of Norconex HTTP Collector is now available. Among new features added to our open-source web crawler, you can expect the following:
- Now supports NTLM authentication. Experimental support added for SPNEGO and Kerberos.
- Document checksums are added to each document metadata.
- Refactoring of HTTPClient creation with many new configuration options added (connection timeout, charset, maximum redirects, and several more).
- Can optionally trust all SSL certificate now.
- Integrates new features of Norconex Importer 1.2.0 such as support for WordPerfect document parsing, new filter and transformers, etc.
- Integrates new features of Norconex Committer 1.2.0 such as defining multiple committers, retrying upon commit failure, etc.
- Other third-party library upgrades.
Pascal Essiembre
Pascal Essiembre has been a successful Enterprise Application Developer for several years before founding Norconex in 2007 and remaining its president to this day. Pascal has been responsible for several successful Norconex enterprise search projects across North America. Pascal is also heading the Product Division of Norconex and leading Norconex Open-Source initiatives.