Features and Capabilities

  • The Web Connector retrieves information from Web sites over HTTP.
  • The embedded web browser in Web Connector 24.3 is Chromium 115.

    NOTE: The embedded web browser in Web Connector 24.3 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.
  • 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,...">
  • 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.