Re: An updated extended standard for robots.txt

Art Matheny (matheny@usf.edu)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:56:14 -0500 (EST)


I am uncertain about how my version 2.0 robot should interpret the
following robots.txt directive:

Robot-version: 2.0
Disallow: /images

Should it retrieve "/images/huge.gif" or not?

If "yes", does that mean that the robot should treat the "/images" string
as an implicit regular expression equivalent to "/images*"?

If "no", then the "Robot-version" directive is more than a documentation
line since it modifies the robot's behavior.

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