Re: The Internet Archive robot

Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com)
Thu, 3 Oct 1996 21:08:08 +0100 (BST)


Z Smith wrote:

>As some members of the list have been quick to point out, our robot is
>(almost) no different than any other search-engine indexing robot, so all
>the exclusion rules and load-politeness etiquette that applies to them
>applies to us.

Just a quick check. Will you be using robots.txt to guide the robot
away from graphics or just html ?

I've always had my graphics blocked from robots via robots.txt. Will
your robot respect that or will it be allowed to grab any inline images
on a robot-allowed html page ?

btw, what USER-AGENT will you use to indetify the robot to the servers
being visited ?

thanks,
rob

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