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Re: robots.txt (was Re: Download a whole gopherhole using wget/curl?)



It was thus said that the Great Christoph Lohmann once stated:
> Good point. In eomyidae you have two possibilities:
> 
> 	User-Agent: *
> 	Disallow: *

  Okay, but this diverts from the HTTP version of robots.txt (from my
understanding unless it's been updated since I was last dealing with this
stuff).

> and
> 
> 	User-Agent: *
> 	Disallow:

  This actually has a different meaning from the HTTP version---there this
means "all browsers allowed to crawl" (back from when it robots.txt was
first developed).

  -spc


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