Re: https://viewvc.infrae.com/ password protected

On 27 May 2009, at 11:55, Kit BLAKE wrote:

> On 27 May 2009, at 11:06, Marc Petitmermet wrote:
>
>> dear all
>>
>> since yesterday https://viewvc.infrae.com/ is all of a sudden  
>> password
>> protected. why?
>
> Because bots were indexing the viewvc, and the processor was hitting  
> 100%. We first tried putting a robots.txt file in there (because we  
> don't want all the old versions to be indexed anyway) but that  
> wasn't possible with the viewvc setup. There's no 'root'.
>
> The svn.infrae.com is not password protected and does get indexed.  
> Sometimes we use the Goggle "site: svn.infrae.com" command which is  
> effective.

Sorry, that should be "site:svn.infrae.com"

Kit


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