-- Main.LukeBaker - 23 Jan 2005

Here's a document listing any sort of development tasks or suggestions.

NutchAdministrationUserInterface

Fetching

HTTP Improvements

• HTTP Authentication support
• HTTP Cookie support

These two could come from the Jakarta HTTPClient work started by AndyHedges. I've implemented NTLM authentication, but it won't be hard to add basic support as well -- I just have to figure out the best way to store credentials in nutch's XML config files.

I've modified Hedges' code to use a single HTTPClient object with multiple connection objects, so cookies should work fine. I'll check whether last-modified can be checked as well from the client, but wouldn't it need changes to the fetcher as well?

-- Main.KenMeltsner - 04 Feb 2005

• HTTP Last-Modified support

• Support for Microsoft's annoying CIFS file service protocol (e.g. file://server/share or perhaps cifs://server/share)

Parsing Improvements

• See the ParserFactoryImprovementProposal

Analyzing

• Add multi-lingual support (see MultiLingualSupport)

Searching

• Add multi-lingual support (see MultiLingualSupport)

Result Serving

• Include an search.jsp version that returns XHTML or xml
• A templating system
• Allow authenticated users to edit/upload templates for search results
• search.jsp accepts template ID

• Maybe use Velocity?

• Cache text taken from non-HTML docs to provide a rough preview of Office, PDF, etc. docs.
• Add a toHtml method to the Content object for prettier previews of proprietary format docs