[mythtv-users] visit from googlebot

Chris Moewes-Bystrom chris.moewes at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 15:44:11 UTC 2006


Also wouldn't hurt to have a robots.txt or robots meta info to prevent
this as well.

adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> into the head
of the document would  help. Of course, this assumes that the
spider/bot respects the rule, but most do.




On 10/2/06, Jacob Steenhagen <jacob at steenhagen.us> wrote:
> While it's true that an unprotected MythWeb can cause many problems, this
> particular one can be mitigated with a little bit of conventional wisdom
> regarding web applications. "Best practice" says that any action which
> will cause some kind of permenant modification (such as deleting a
> recording!) be done using a POST rather than a GET. Web bots do not follow
> POSTs, therefore no matter how often googlebot visits, no recordings would
> be lost.
>
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