Issues with 'built-in' software
Of the products in the table, Microsoft, Coldfusion, WebStar, are all associated either with the web server or the content management software that is running on it. My concern over using these products would be:
- the coverage of the results
- whether you are limited to indexing one server
Problems can arise when indexing from built-in or add-on indexing software, such as Microsoft Site Server or WebStar indexing software, which may be vendor specific. This is because of the differences in the ways web servers respond when the indexing robot approaches them (the API of the web server). The APIs of the above servers are subtly different from, say, Apache, and the indexing software may have been written with their particular API in mind, so may baulk at unexpected server responses. This problem is more likely to arise when you are indexing a large number of servers (and encounter more different types of server software during the process).
