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How to allow Read access only for Bots

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Topic: How to allow Read access only for Bots

Posted By: hotice08
Subject: How to allow Read access only for Bots
Date Posted: 01 May 2008 at 7:43pm

I don't know whether it is a valid thing to do it this way.

I want to take away read access to the guests.

Is it possible to create a group for all the bots, let's say Bots and giving them access to crawl the site or read through the pages.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 May 2008 at 8:03am

It wouldn't be a simple as that, you would need to edit the forums code to do this, and it may not be a simple task.

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 02 May 2008 at 11:01am

Also, the problem you have, is that if the Search Engine Robots can view the pages, anyone can.

Either by changing their User Agent to appear as a robot, or by simply viewing the cached page from the Search Engine.

So it wouldn't be very secure, so if there's something you want to hide from the public, it wont be hidden.

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