stop web spiders

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 07:19:18PM +0100, Anze Vidmar wrote:
> Is it possible to stop spiders to access specific folder on my web
> server? e.g. http://myweb.com is public, but
> http://myweb.com/confidential has some confidential files in it and I
> don't want them to show while searching google for example. The password
> protection (.htaccess) is *not* an option. I have "-Indexes" option set
> on this folder, but still not sure if spiders can read them or not?

http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

Please note that although the robots.txt file is a standard, there is no
guarantee that all spiders will honor it.  Google does though.

        .../Ed

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