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Lewis John McGibbney updated NUTCH-1257:
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Fix Version/s: 2.2
1.7
> Support for the x-robots-tag HTTP Header
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> Key: NUTCH-1257
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1257
> Project: Nutch
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: fetcher
> Reporter: Mike
> Labels: http,, privacy,, robots,
> Fix For: 1.7, 2.2
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> Google and Bing both currently support the x-robots-tag HTTP header. This is
> important, because they have a policy of not *crawling* links that are in a
> robots.txt file, and not *indexing* links that are set to noindex. In the
> case that a page is indexed but not crawled, Google and Bing will show the
> page in their results, but it will lack a snippet (since they didn't crawl
> it, they can't generate one).
> As a result, the only way to block Google and Bing from having a page in
> their index is to use the robots meta tag in HTML pages and the x-robots-tag
> in other mimetypes.
> As a site owner that needs to keep specific pages private, I *cannot* trust
> robots.txt to keep my pages out of Google and Bing, and I have to use the two
> robots standards. Since Nutch doesn't support the HTTP header, I have to
> block it from crawling ALL non-HTML pages on my site.
> This is not an ideal state of affairs, and it would be great if Nutch
> supported the x-robots-tag HTTP header.
> I've done more research on this topic on my blog:
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> http://michaeljaylissner.com/blog/support-for-x-robots-tag-http-header-and-robots-HTML-meta-tag
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> http://michaeljaylissner.com/blog/respecting-privacy-while-providing-hundreds-of-thousands-of-public-documents
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