com.norconex.collector.http.client

Interface IHttpClientFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

GenericHttpClientFactory

public interface IHttpClientFactory

Create (and initializes) an Apache HttpClient to be used for all HTTP requests this crawler will make. If implementing CloseableHttpClient the crawler will take care of closing it properly when crawling ends. Implementors also implementing IXMLConfigurable must name their XML tag httpClientFactory to ensure it gets loaded properly.

Since:

1.3.0

Author:

Pascal Essiembre

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.apache.http.client.HttpClient	createHTTPClient(String userAgent) Initializes the HTTP Client used for crawling.

Method Detail

createHTTPClient

org.apache.http.client.HttpClient createHTTPClient(String userAgent)

Initializes the HTTP Client used for crawling.

Parameters:

userAgent - the HTTP request "User-Agent" header value

Returns:

Apache HTTP Client