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Ed Costello  
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 More options Aug 6 1995, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
From: coste...@netcom.com (Ed Costello)
Date: 1995/08/06
Subject: Re: robot.txt
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In <npmDCwt59....@netcom.com>, n...@netcom.com wrote:
> Upon close examination of my log I can see there's some midnight maurader
> (of the programatic kind) going around and looking for "robot.txt".  
> Just what exactly is it looking for in that robot.txt file?  I'd like to
> feed the little devils.

robots.txt is a defacto standard file for webwalkers/spiders/etc to
look for on web sites to determine what to index on that site (or
whether to index the site at all).
The file looks like:

#This is a file retrieved by webwalkers a.k.a. spiders that
#conform to a defacto standard.
#See <URL:"http://web.nexor.co.uk/mak/doc/robots/norobots.html">
#The webmaster for this site is webmas...@www.ibm.com
#Format is:
#       User-agent: <name of spider>
#       Disallow: <nothing> | <path>
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# following prevents access to /misc/ for spiders
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /misc

#EOF

See <URL:http://web.nexor.co.uk/mak/doc/robots/norobots.html> for more
information.

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//name  dd                                                       -ed costello
//email dd                                                coste...@netcom.com


 
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