simply put sensitive files outside the web root and have CF pull them as needed - no spider is going to index inaccessible files ;-)
my 2 cents in the 20 seconds I thought about this HTH ;-) ...and I'm sure you'll get loads of other options - this one to me is simple and solid Cheers On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 14:02 -0400, Robert Rhodes wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I have a site where a password is required to access the site. On pages in > the site, there are links to download files. I set the appropriate meta > tags and robots.txt to tell the search engines to not spyder the site. > > Though the site pages are not in google, the files are showing up. that's > bad. > > It's a lot of files, so before I code up a solution to access all the > through logic so I can control the permissions, is there some way to > protect a directory so that files can't be downloaded without being logged > in on the site? > > My guess is the answer is no, but I thought I would ask. > > -RR > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352094 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
