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  • 1.  How to crawl FTP Server

    Posted Sun November 29, 2020 08:37 PM

    Is it possible to crawl a FTP Server? I couldn't find any documentation about it.

    I'm using Watson Explorer 11.0.2 .





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  • 2.  RE: How to crawl FTP Server

    Posted Mon November 30, 2020 12:59 AM

    FTP is not much different from a search point of view. Most web crawlers are fairly complex mostly to cope with the wide range of content platforms.





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  • 3.  RE: How to crawl FTP Server

    Posted Mon November 30, 2020 01:05 AM

    Just as a though to aid your thinking. Some ago I acquired a cope of the Adobe Font Folio CD at an auction along with other assets.

    The fonts on the CD were in separate folders making it impossible to install them all.

    So I used the for command and recursively crawled the CD to copy the fonts to a hard disk folder.

    The CD was more recent so the fonts are in the open type format rather than the older PFM and PFB that was seen with type 1 fonts

    had I needed to handle the older version, the for command can still be used to copy files as the command can be more complex as needed





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