William Robb wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way of preventing search engines from indexing > the contents of a > PDF file, without actually putting password security on the file?
If anyone can get the file without a password, then a search 'bot can. The robots.txt file is purely an agreement, and no 'bot is bound by it; they're free to ignore it if they want. There are only two ways to keep material away from the search bots: 1) Don't put that material on the Internet 2) Put it on the Internet, but protect it with (at least) authentication or (more securely) non-trivial encryption, and in either case or both cases use a non-trivial password. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
