1 Introduction

This document specifies the Site Data 2003 Web Service Protocol. This protocol enables a set of server extensions that are used to augment a basic HTTP server so that it supports full and incremental crawling. This protocol is intended to be used by an index server application and not by a user directly through a Web browser.

Sections 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 2, and 3 of this specification are normative. All other sections and examples in this specification are informative.