Patent ID: 8364795

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for configuring a crawl function of a crawler application, the method comprising: obtaining a current version of the crawler application; presenting a user interface to enable the configuring of the crawl function; receiving input data for configuring the crawl function, wherein the input data comprises data to configure the crawl function to create a content source and a new rule with two or more parameters defined for the new rule, wherein at least one of the parameters requires the crawl function to execute crawling in a case-sensitive manner; formatting the input data into a crawler configuration request message; transmitting the crawler configuration request message to a protocol server; receiving a crawler configuration response message from the protocol server; wherein the crawler configuration response message comprises a fault message indicating that the crawler configuration request message does not satisfy criteria for configuring the crawl function when the crawler configuration request message does not satisfy criteria for configuring the crawl function; and wherein the crawler configuration request message is allowed when the crawler configuration request message does satisfy criteria for configuring the crawl function.