Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2012, 08:20:14 schrieb Richard Hipp: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <vi...@viric.name>wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 06:17:05AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > Finally: Do you have any further ideas on how to defend a Fossil website > > > against runs such as the two we observed on SQLite last night? > > > > This problem affects almost any web software, and I think that job is > > delegated > > to robots.txt. Isn't this approach good enough? > > Robots.txt only works over an entire domain. If your Fossil server is > running as CGI within that domain, you can manually modify your robots.txt > file to exclude all or part of the fossil URI space. But as that file is > not under control of Fossil, you have to make this configuration yourself - > Fossil cannot help you. This burden can become acute when you are managing > many dozens or even hundreds of Fossil repositories. An automatic system > is better.
The search engine crawlers do honor the robots meta-tag: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html Adding this is a piece of cake (just change the page template), but it doesn't help against malware. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://bernd-paysan.de/
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