SharePoint 2007: Search and Protocol Handlers
Introduction
All content that is crawled requires the use of a protocol handler to gain access to that content. Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides protocol handlers for all common Internet protocols. However, if you want to crawl content that requires a protocol handler that is not installed with Office SharePoint Server 2007, you must install the third-party or custom protocol handler before you can crawl that content.
Default Protocol Handlers
The following table shows the protocol handlers that are installed by default.
| Protocol Handler | Used to crawl |
| Bdc | Business Data Catalog |
| Bdc2 | Business Data Catalog URLs (internal protocol) |
| File | File shares |
| http | Websites |
| https | Websites over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) |
| Notes | Lotus Notes databases |
| Rb | Exchange public folders |
| Rbs | Exchange public folders over SSL |
| Sps | People profiles from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 server farms |
| Sps3 | People profile crawls of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 server farms only |
| Sps3s | People profile crawls from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 server farms only over SSL |
| Spsimport | People profile import |
| Spss | People profile import from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 server farms over SSL |
| Sts | Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 root URLs (internal protocol) |
| Sts2 | Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 sites |
| Sts2s | Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 sites over SSL |
| Sts3 | Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites |
| Sts3s | Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites over SSL |