Re: indexing via redirectors

Theo Van Dinter (felicity@kluge.net)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:36:22 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Sigfrid Lundberg wrote:

> gungner:~$ HEAD -S http://www.sb.gov.se/robots.txt
> HEAD http://www.sb.gov.se/robots.txt --> 302 Moved Temporarily
> HEAD http://www.sb.gov.se/ --> 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:22:01 GMT
> Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a
> Content-Type: text/html
> Client-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:22:42 GMT

By spec, robots.txt can be a redirect, but to the main page, hmmmm ...
<raising left eyebrow> Reminds me of www.isn.com. If you request
anything which actually doesn't exist (like /robots.txt), it'll just send
you (w/out redirect) the main page.

Different ...

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