Re: robots.txt unavailability

levitte@lp.se
Tue, 09 Jul 1996 17:51:14 +0200


>From: "Fred K. Lenherr" <lenherr@tiac.com>

>What is the correct way of accessing robots.txt?
>
>Is it always located at http://<host>:[<port>]/robots.txt ?

Ayup.

>Or are you supposed to do something other than a GET /robots.txt HTML/1.0 ?

Nope.

>(I can't find a robots.txt at www.lanl.gov thru Netscape, for example.)

Misconfiguration or sloopyness...

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