[jira] [Updated] (NUTCH-1257) Support for the x-robots-tag HTTP Header
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1257?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Sebastian Nagel updated NUTCH-1257: --- Fix Version/s: 1.8 Support for the x-robots-tag HTTP Header Key: NUTCH-1257 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1257 Project: Nutch Issue Type: New Feature Components: fetcher Reporter: Mike Assignee: Markus Jelsma Labels: http,, privacy,, robots, Fix For: 2.3, 1.8 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: - http://michaeljaylissner.com/blog/support-for-x-robots-tag-http-header-and-robots-HTML-meta-tag - http://michaeljaylissner.com/blog/respecting-privacy-while-providing-hundreds-of-thousands-of-public-documents -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[jira] [Updated] (NUTCH-1257) Support for the x-robots-tag HTTP Header
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1257?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Lewis John McGibbney updated NUTCH-1257: Fix Version/s: 2.2 1.7 Support for the x-robots-tag HTTP Header 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 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: - http://michaeljaylissner.com/blog/support-for-x-robots-tag-http-header-and-robots-HTML-meta-tag - http://michaeljaylissner.com/blog/respecting-privacy-while-providing-hundreds-of-thousands-of-public-documents -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
