This robots.txt issue was exaggerated by leftist crtitics of the
administration. (This is not a general defense of the White House,
just a statement of fact.) The Bush WH.gov server has a special Iraq
section where press releases, speeches, etc. are reposted in a
different HTML template. The WH only wants the "master" copy indexed
and not the duplicate copy in the second template. Hence the apparent
weirdness in robots.txt.
I have not found any skullduggery going on, though I suppose it
wouldn't hurt to keep a copy of the Iraq section for "diff" purposes
just in case.
-Declan
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up
on the web?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents
elsewhere in the directory tree; "X/text/" and "X/iraq/" are
supposed to be copies of "X/", with images removed in the first
case. I suspect that downloading them all would just confirm that.
--
avva
Declan McCullagh