Or by the user agent... but that can be easily faked if someone knew you were intentionally hiding it.
Thanks, Nathan. Web Controlled Robotic Arm, Beetle, Missile Launcher and Xmas Tree/Lights! http://www.kennedytechnology.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Berend de Boer Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 1:57 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [phpug] Re: OT. robots.txt and security >>>>> "yeosteve" == yeosteve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: yeosteve> Does anyone know of a way to prevent this file being read yeosteve> by browsers while still allowing search engines access to yeosteve> it? Even as I write that, it seems like a Very Dumb yeosteve> question. Not easy, i.e. the only thing that would work would be ip address based. But security by obscurity is the really dumb idea here :-) -- Cheers, Berend de Boer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
