Features and Capabilities
- The Web Connector retrieves information from Web sites over HTTP.
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The embedded web browser in Web Connector 24.1 is Chromium 102.0.5005.57.
NOTE: The embedded web browser in Web Connector 24.1 for the
RHEL7FIPS
platform is Qt Webkit 5.1.1. Some features are not supported on this platform. - The connector can crawl a Web site starting from a page that you specify, or retrieve the pages listed in a site map. When crawling a web site, the connector can follow links that exist in the HTML source of the page or in Adobe Flash content.
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The connector can extract information contained in data URIs. For example, images might be base-64 encoded and included in the source of an HTML page:
<img src="data:image/png;base64,...">
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The connector can log on to Web sites to retrieve content. The connector supports the following types of authentication:
- HTTP Basic
- HTTP Digest
- NTLMv2
- Kerberos (not supported on the
RHEL7FIPS
platform).
- You can configure the connector to populate and submit HTML forms. This feature is useful when the connector must log on to a Web site.
- The connector uses canonical links in web pages and response headers to de-duplicate content retrieved from the web.