Robot Catcher
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If you manually got to this page, please use
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A robot should NOT follow this link
Special keywords: Patrick Gautschi robots foobar followed
The Robots Exclusion Protocol
The Robots Exclusion Protocol is a method that allows Web site administrators
to indicate to visiting robots which parts of their site should not be visited
by the robot.
In a nutshell, when a Robot vists a Web site, say http://www.foobar.com/,
it firsts checks for http://www.foobar.com/robots.txt. If it can find this
document, it will analyse its contents for records like:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
to see if it is allowed to retrieve the document. The precise details on how
these rules can be specified, and what they mean, can be found in:
Web Server Administrator's Guide to the Robots Exclusion Protocol
HTML Author's Guide to the Robots Exclusion Protocol
The original 1994 protocol description, as currently deployed.
The revised Internet-Draft specification, which is not yet completed or
implemented.