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#13 2015-01-27 20:46:22

gaekwad
Server grease monkey
From: People's Republic of Cornwall
Registered: 2005-11-19
Posts: 4,260
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Re: How do I keep robots away ?

txpwayoflife wrote #287826:

30 minutes and no robots (from linode.com) untill now…

You do know this will stop people’s ifttt recipes running, right? If someone has chosen to check your RSS feed with ifttt then those recipes will no longer be able to check your site for updates.

That might make people sad. It would make me sad, that’s for sure. ifttt people need love, too!

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#14 2015-01-27 22:22:36

txpwayoflife
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Registered: 2015-01-09
Posts: 16

Re: How do I keep robots away ?

gaekwad wrote #287837:

ifttt people need love, too!

You are so funny!

Are you sure? I think it will block only the robots ; )

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#15 2015-01-27 22:33:50

gaekwad
Server grease monkey
From: People's Republic of Cornwall
Registered: 2005-11-19
Posts: 4,260
GitHub

Re: How do I keep robots away ?

txpwayoflife wrote #287838:

I think it will block only the robots ; )

It will block the robots. The ifttt robots are hitting your site, and they send the triggers to the users. They are not malicious robots, and not frequent enough to cause any problems. Right now, because the robots are blocked, the ifttt service cannot access your feed to update the subscribers. If you unblock them, then ifttt will work again.

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#16 2015-01-28 09:41:48

philwareham
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From: Haslemere, Surrey, UK
Registered: 2009-06-11
Posts: 3,564
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Re: How do I keep robots away ?

You might want to check this out, I use some of these rules in my own .htaccess file. Not all of them, though.

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