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The Robot Exclusion Standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots.txt protocol, is a convention to prevent cooperating web spiders and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website which is otherwise publicly viewable. Robots are often used by search engines to categorize and archive web sites, or by webmasters to proofread source code. The standard is unrelated to, but can be used in conjunction with, Sitemaps, a robot inclusion standard for websites. HistoryThis section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be and removed. (July 2010)The invention of "robots.txt" is attributed to Martijn Koster, when working for WebCrawler around 1994. "robots.txt" was then popularized with the advent of AltaVista, and other popular search engines, in the following years. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. For some reason when you go to our website in Netscape a dialog opens and asks what you want to do with the robots.txt file, save or open. The file is in the root of my site like it is supposed to be. I have two other sites that have them and don't do the same thing. I even deleted the file to see if the message went away and it doesn't. Any ideas on what could be causing this odd message? Asked by Gina Day - Fri Nov 2 17:27:33 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. Try clearing your history, it may be a freak history link or cookie causing this. I had similar on Firefox, a site I had edited through a browser vnc connection kept offering to open any php pages I went to, it could not actually open them in edit mode, but it tried. Clearing link and cookie history cured it. Answered by Colinc - Fri Nov 2 17:39:51 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Robots.txt" |
