title: SharePoint 2013 crawl external website with querystring parameter
body: <p>I need to index my company's employee manual, which is hosted on an external website. This page requires login, and supports auto-login through a query string parameter.</p>
  
  <p>Like this: <a href="http://manual.externalprovider.com?token=xxxxxxxxx" rel="nofollow">http://manual.externalprovider.com?token=xxxxxxxxx</a></p>
  
  <p>When entering this URL in my content source I get no result and the following warning: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Item not crawled due to one of the following reasons: Preventive crawl
    rule; Specified content source hops/depth exceeded; <strong>URL has query
    string parameter</strong>; Required protocol handler not found; Preventive
    robots directive. ( This item was deleted because it was excluded by a
    crawl rule. )</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Is it impossible to crawl content that has a query string parameter in the start addresss? Any other suggestions on how to solve this?</p>