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Lewis John McGibbney commented on NUTCH-1943:
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I'll have a crack at this today.
The issue is discussed at the following thread
http://www.mail-archive.com/user%40nutch.apache.org/msg13804.html
> Form authentication should not be global and ignore <authScope>
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> Key: NUTCH-1943
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1943
> Project: Nutch
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: plugin, protocol
> Affects Versions: 1.10
> Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney
> Assignee: Lewis John McGibbney
> Labels: memex
> Fix For: 1.11
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> Taken from [~wastl-nagel]'s comments on NUTCH-827
> bq. the form authentication is global and ignores <authScope>. So you have to
> restrict your crawl to the form authentication pages only. Ideally, also form
> authentication should be bound to a scope (one host, one URL prefix, etc.)
> same as HTTP authentication.
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