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RE: FW: Careful. This is for information only.



On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote:

> Oh damn... looking at the logs.... looks like here comes another one...
> "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0"... repeat.

That's usually from a search engine.  robots.txt is an (advisory) control
method so that search engines don't try to index, for example, dynamically
generated or password protected content.

Unless there's a new worm out that uses that somehow (ugh).



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