On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, VBCoder wrote:

> that utilizes a shopping cart.  The page to add goes like
> shoppingcart.asp?item=add&item=w123456.  My robots.txt file has and entry
> that ends with shoppingcart.asp.  I see many robots that visit the site,

Way back at the beginning of time (1996 or so) I think it was suggested
that GET be used to retrieve information and POST be used to make things
happen, like debiting accounts or ordering things. Robots don't do POST,
generally speaking.

No doubt you have some good reason for using GET, like being able to use
the Back button ...

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