Index Server Companion 3.3

The Index Server Companion is a web crawler utility that allows Microsoft Index Server/Indexing Services to index content from remote websites (including those running Apache on Linux/Unix) and ODBC databases.

Version 3.3 offers the following updates:

• It is now possible to crawl websites that use Windows NTLM authentication.
• The documentation has been updated.

Index Server Companion 3.2

The Index Server Companion is a web crawler utility that allows Microsoft Index Server/Indexing Services to index content from remote websites (including those running Apache on Linux/Unix) and ODBC databases. Version 3.2 offers the following update:

• It is now possible to crawl SSL (https) websites with the Index Server Companion.

SSL support should work immediately if you are using the compiled version (i.e. IndexServerCompanion.exe). If, however, you are using the IndexServerCompanion.pl Perl script, then you will need to ensure that the Net_SSLeay.pm and IO-Socket-SSL modules are installed.

To do this for ActiveState's ActivePerl, do the following:

Open a command prompt and type the following:

• ppm3
  
• rep add kobes http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/
  
• install Net_SSLeay.pm
  
• rep up 3
  
• rep up 2 [make sure kobes is listed first when you type "rep"]
  
• install IO-Socket-SSL

Note that if you are using ActiveState's ActivePerl 5.8.x the URL in the instructions above should be set to http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms instead. Type perl- v at the command prompt to find the version you are using.

If both Net_SSLeay.pm and IO-Socket-SSL modules install properly then you should be able to access SSL sites using the IndexServerCompanion.pl Perl script.

Index Server Companion 3.1

The Index Server Companion is a web crawler utility that allows Microsoft Index Server/Indexing Services to index content from remote websites (including those running Apache on Linux/Unix) and ODBC databases. Version 3.1 offers the following updates:

• Modified the database data extraction routine in order to ensure that fields of type adDBDate are extracted in date format and adDBTime are extracted in time format.
• Modified the database data extraction routine in order to ensure that date and time fields are not converted to date/time format if the field has a null value.

Index Server Companion 3.0

The Index Server Companion is a web crawler utility that allows Microsoft Index Server/Indexing Services to index content from remote websites (including those running Apache on Linux/Unix) and ODBC databases. Version 3.0 offers the following update:

• Modified the database data extraction routine in order to ensure that fields of type adDate are extracted in date format.

Index Server Companion 2.9

The Index Server Companion is a web crawler utility that allows Microsoft Index Server/Indexing Services to index content from remote websites (including those running Apache on Linux/Unix) and ODBC databases. Version 2.9 offers the following updates:

• The AddURLToTitle configuration option has improved support for HTML documents with blank title tags.
• There is now a .NET Framework code sample for VB.NET. Find it in the Samples\Index Server with ASP.NET\ASP.NET\VB.NET folder within the Index Server Companion folder.

Index Server Companion 2.8

The Index Server Companion is a web crawler utility that allows Microsoft Index Server/Indexing Services to index content from remote websites (including those running Apache on Linux/Unix) and ODBC databases. Version 2.8 offers the following update:

• The AddURLToTitle configuration option has improved support for HTML documents with blank title tags (i.e. <title></title>).