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Default URL filter: exclude localhost and private address spaces #543

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To avoid that information is leaked and exposed in a public search interface, a web crawler should never follow links to localhost, loop-back addresses and private address spaces, see commoncrawl/news-crawl#21. These are excluded by regular expressions for http/https URLs.

Of course, could comment out the rules to enable test crawls of the local Apache web server.

@jnioche jnioche merged commit 62c6e3d into apache:master Mar 7, 2018
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jnioche commented Mar 7, 2018

thanks @sebastian-nagel

@sebastian-nagel sebastian-nagel deleted the sc-url-filter-localhost branch March 25, 2019 10:46
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