Re: FW: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root
| From: | Dale H. Cook | Date: | Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:43:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: FW: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root | ||
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At 04:58 PM 3/13/2013, Jen Rasmussen wrote:
>Have you tried keeping all of your documents in one directory and blocking
>that directory via a robots.txt file?
A spider used by a pirate site does not have to honor robots.txt, just as a non-Adobe PDF utility
does not have to honor security settings imposed by Acrobat Pro. The use of robots.txt would succeed
mainly in blocking major search engines, which are not the problem.
Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net