Nephentes has been doing the rounds in social media, adding an easy detection and mitigation mechanism for this type of trap, as sadly not all webmasters set up their robots.txt correctly. Out of the box crawl limits will also deal with this type of attack, but this fix is faster.
This gives the same upper limit to the live crawler and the big boy crawler, though the live crawler will reject items too large, and the big crawler will truncate at that point.
We should not wait until we've fetched robots.txt to decide whether we have any data to fetch! This makes the live crawler very slow and leads to unnecessary requests.
This change adds `Accept-Encoding: gzip` to all outbound requests from the live crawler and feed fetcher, and the corresponding decoding logic for the compressed response data.
The change addresses issue #136, save for making the fetcher's requests conditional.
Discovered feed URLs were given a double slash after their domain name in the DB. This will go away in the URL normalizer, so the URLs are still viable, but the commit fixes the issue regardless.
Feed discover is improved with by probing a few likely endpoints when no feed link tag is provided. To store the feed URLs, a sqlite database is added to each crawlset that stores a simple summary of the crawl job, including any feed URLs that have been discovered.
Solves issue #135
Updated the `documentBody` method to improve parsing retries and error handling. Refactored `ContentType` charset processing with cleaner logic, removing redundant handling for unsupported charsets. Also, updated the version of the `slop` library in dependency settings.
Also alter CrawledDocument to not require String parsing of the underlying byte[] data. This should reduce the number of large memory allocations quite significantly, hopefully reducing the GC churn a bit.
Replaces Parquet output and processing with the new Slop-based format. Includes data migration functionality, updates to handling and writing of crawl data, and introduces support for SLOP in domain readers and converters.
Previously, the sideloader did not generate a locality-sensitive hashCode for document details. This caused all documents from the same domain to be considered duplicates by the deduplication logic.
Added an additional filter step to ensure URLs with binary suffixes are excluded during crawling. This prevents unnecessary processing of non-HTML content, improving the efficiency of the link parsing process.
If the document's URL path is "/", a "special:root" meta flag is now added with the "Synthetic" bit set. This will help searching only for the root document of a website, neat stuff ahead :D
Centralized HTML feature handling with `applyFeatures` in StackexchangeSideloader and added dynamic synthetic term generation. Improved HTML structure in RedditSideloader and enhanced metadata processing with feature-based keywords. Updated DomainLinks to correctly compute link counts using individual link occurrences.
This update eliminates all occurrences of the OpenNLP token model from the setup script, configuration, and test files, as this model file is no longer used.
Introduced optional alias domain functionality in EdgeDomain class to handle domain variations such as "www" in the anchor tags code, as there are commonly a number of relevant but glancing misses in the atags data.
