Funnelback patch 15.14.0.5

  • Released: 2018-06-05

  • Applies to: v15.14.0

  • Internal reference: SUPPORT-2675

Description

Provides a collection.cfg setting (crawler.send-http-basic-credentials-without-challenge) to restore older web-crawler behaviour of sending HTTP Basic authentication details without waiting for a 401 challenge from the web server.

This patch includes a default setting to default to the old behaviour.

Affected files

  • conf/collection.cfg.default

  • lib/java/all/funnelback-crawler-http-client.jar

  • web/webapps/funnelback-admin-api.war

Deployment

  • (Windows) Stop currently running crawls.

  • Stop the Jetty web server and the Funnelback daemon.

  • Deploy the provided files on top of an existing install, backing up all replaced files.

  • Start the Jetty web server and the Funnelback daemon.

  • (Windows) Start crawls as needed.