ISearchProtocol Interface

Provides methods for invoking, initializing, and managing IUrlAccessor objects. Methods in this interface are called by the protocol host when processing URLs from the gatherer.

The protocol handler implements the protocol for accessing a content source in its native format. Use this interface to implement a custom protocol handler to expand the data sources that can be indexed.

ISearchProtocol Members

CloseAccessor Closes a previously created IUrlAccessor object.
CreateAccessor Creates and initializes an IUrlAccessor object.
Init Initializes a protocol handler.
ShutDown Shuts down the protocol handler.

Interface Information

Inherits from IUnknown
Header and IDL files searchapi.h, srchprth.idl
Minimum operating systems Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) with Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0, Windows Vista

See Also

The Indexing Process