3.14. URL Normalizer
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- Plugin Key
au_url_normalizer
- Plugin Value Type
- Plugin Value Format
The value is the fully-qualified name of a Java class that implements the
org.lockss.plugin.UrlNormalizer
interface.- Sample
<entry> <string>au_url_normalizer</string> <string>edu.example.plugin.publisherx.PublisherXUrlNormalizer</string> </entry>
- Description
A URL normalizer maps URL variants to a canonical representation, for example by re-arranging equivalent URL query strings into a canonical order, removing extraneous URL substrings (for instance session IDs), canonicalizing the case (for instance to lowercase), etc. so that equivalent variants are stored only once under the canonical name.