[patch] enhancement for tika server protected by user/password basic auth

[John Fawcett]

On 15/11/2020 15:49, PGNet Dev wrote:
> On 11/15/20 6:33 AM, John Fawcett wrote:
>> I've configured a tika server behind an apache proxy which enforces
>> basic auth, but sending basic auth credentials for a tika server is not
>> currently supported by Dovecot.
>
> i was _just_ setting up a tika instance behind a nginx proxy with
> basicauth in place.
>
> hadn't yet gotten to the "can't pass auth creds in dovecot" bit.
> thx! for the patch; hopefully the premise/patch will get picked up.
> (ya-request for a proper @dovecot public bug/issue queue!)
>
> have you found any other 'magic required' to get solr & tika indexing
> text/attachments, respectively, in Dovecot context?
> is it as straightforward as spec'ing the 'fts_solr' & 'fts_tika' urls,
> and Dovecot does the passing-around correctly?

I've just started using tika myself, but from my tests, it's as simple
as adding fts_tika to a working solr integration.

John