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> Webmasters also put highly specific URLs they don't want the world to see in robots.txt. Also not a great idea. I can confirm; I tried to helpfully put a bun
by gwd 5y ago
> Webmasters also put highly specific URLs they don't want the world to see in robots.txt. Also not a great idea.
I can confirm; I tried to helpfully put a bunch of addresses which would be pointless for a web crawler to crawl in there (links to the login page, etc), but as soon as you say "don't" somebody's gotta go find out why.
I like the idea of putting gzip bombs at commonly-scanned URLs.