meta tags and forms authentication

[psb]

this may seem like a gimme... If all of my pages are locked behind
username/password -forms authentication, then search engines cannot index
my site, right? could a http handler be made to listen for robots?

-psb

 

[Michel Posseth [MCP]]

Why don`t you include a robots.txt file in your webfolder ( just an
idea ) you could exclude this file from forms authentication

see this http://www.robotstxt.ca/ ( verry clear examples)


regards


Michel Posseth [MCP]

 

[psb]

how could access to robots.txt file let robot have access to the rest of the
site? forms authentication will force everything back to login.aspx page
right?

Why don`t you include a robots.txt file in your webfolder ( just an
idea ) you could exclude this file from forms authentication

see this http://www.robotstxt.ca/ ( verry clear examples)


regards


Michel Posseth [MCP]

this may seem like a gimme... If all of my pages are locked behind
username/password -forms authentication, then search engines cannot index
my site, right? could a http handler be made to listen for robots?

-psb

 

[Guest]

Hi,

You can set the access rights in web.config using a location tag:

<!-- SET UP AUTHORIZATION USING LOCATION TAG -->
<location path="Robot.txt">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>

Regards
Warren

how could access to robots.txt file let robot have access to the rest of the
site? forms authentication will force everything back to login.aspx page
right?

Why don`t you include a robots.txt file in your webfolder ( just an
idea ) you could exclude this file from forms authentication

see this http://www.robotstxt.ca/ ( verry clear examples)


regards


Michel Posseth [MCP]

this may seem like a gimme... If all of my pages are locked behind
username/password -forms authentication, then search engines cannot index
my site, right? could a http handler be made to listen for robots?

-psb