[3889] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: maintaining state and security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Rinehart)
Mon Dec 23 10:37:14 1996
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 08:51:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel Rinehart <danielr@ccs.neu.edu>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.961221105649.13008A-100000@beast>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> I have a rather large site on which I maintain state using CGI scripts
> instead of cookies because we have a large number of users on older
> Any ideas on how to deal with this problem would be appreciated.
It sounds like using a robots.txt file may be the easiest way to
solve your problem. A couple of links on the subject:
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/guidelines.html
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html
- Daniel R. <danielr@ccs.neu.edu>
