Re: robots.txt syntax

Martijn Koster (m.koster@webcrawler.com)
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:18:54 -0700


At 9:53 AM 10/11/96, John D. Pritchard wrote:
>> Disallow: /
>> Allow: /public/
>
>a couple of people, including myself, have proposed this. one of us needs
>to get around to writing a draft extending the present draft on
>robots.txt.

Funny you should say that -- I'm adding support for that to my robots.txt
library + test-suite tomorrow.

I'll see how far I get with writing it up to; I really don't want to
come out with a new spec without fixing some other things.

I now have a FreeBSD/Win95 box at home -- that helps :-)

-- Martijn

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