[Zope] web crawlers, robots & graphs / visualisation, zope-edu

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:15:46 -0800


> Can any one tell me if Web sites developed using Zope can be indexed on
> search engines like Google / AltaVista when those wee spider fellas
> visit the server..?

Yes. You can change the rights by creating a robots.txt. Beware though Zope
can happily create infinite looping urls if you use relative urls. If you
have an infinite loop, google can get into a mess as I found out:

http://www.zopezen.com/SDot/980438432/index_html

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  Andy McKay.