Re: FW: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root

[email protected] ("Dale H. Cook") Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:43:59 -0400

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At 04:58 PM 3/13/2013, Jen Rasmussen wrote:

>Have you tried keeping all of your documents in one directory and blocking
>that directory via a robots.txt file?

A spider used by a pirate site does not have to honor robots.txt, just as a non-Adobe PDF utility does not have to honor security settings imposed by Acrobat Pro. The use of robots.txt would succeed mainly in blocking major search engines, which are not the problem.

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net