Microsoft KB Archive/259048

= Site Server Search Cannot Catalog SSL Secured Sites =

Article ID: 259048

Article Last Modified on 4/13/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q259048



SYMPTOMS
When you create a Site Server Search catalog to crawl an HTTPS:// starting address, and then you attempt to perform the crawl, no documents are crawled and there is an error message in the Gather log that states the following:

URL is excluded because the URL protocol is not recognized or restricted.



CAUSE
Site Server Search does not include a protocol handler for the HTTPS protocol. Site Server Search only includes handlers for HTTP, EXCH, and FILE protocols.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, use one of the following methods:
 * Perform a file crawl of the Web content. This method indexes the documents and preserves any ACLs on the files, but it does not process any ASP pages so that no dynamic content is indexed. -or-


 * Set up a duplicate site without using SSL security, and then crawl this site. Because the site is not secured with SSL, you can crawl it using the HTTP protocol.

NOTE: For both of the methods, you need to do URL mapping, so that the URL returned to the user is correct.

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