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URL Rewriter Concepts

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A URL rewriter is a user supplied Java module that implements the Oracle SES UrlRewriter Java interface. When activated, it is used by the crawler to filter and rewrite extracted URL links before they are inserted into the URL queue. The URL Rewriter API is used for Web sources.

During a Web crawl, the next URL is obtained from the URL queue.The content of the URL is fetched, and URL links are extracted from the content. After this, the links are inserted into the URL queue.

Some of the important URL Rewriter concepts that you need to know are: