Hi Karl and all!

 

We noticed that in some case, when using the new "Force the inclusion of
redirections" option in the Web Crawler Connector, we encounter SSL
certificate error. This happens when whe try to get the final URL from a
redirection in order to add it to the seed.

 

We can fix this by disabling SSL verification while getting final URL from
pages with redirections. The unchecked certificates should not cause any
problems, since it's only about adding the new host to the seed. All usual
checks will be applied during the indexing.

 

Note that when fetching the final url, we do not take into account the
connector's graphical option to able or disable certificate validation:
certificates are always ignored. Still, once the actual crawling takes place
when the final list of seed hosts is established, the option about
certification validation is respected again.

 

I opened a Pull Request to fix this, right here:
https://github.com/apache/manifoldcf/pull/164 

 

Regards,

 

Emeric Bernet-Rollande

France Labs - Makers of  <https://www.datafari.com/en> Datafari Enteprise
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