# /robots.txt file for http://esdinc.com/ # mail esd@esdinc.com for constructive criticism # User-agent: webcrawler # Disallow: # User-agent: lycra # Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /tmp Disallow: /logs Disallow: /privateesd # The first two lines, starting with '#', specify a comment # The first paragraph specifies that the robot called 'webcrawler' has nothing disallowed: it may go anywhere. # The second paragraph indicates that the robot called 'lycra' has all relative URLs starting with '/' disallowed. # Because all relative URL's on a server start with '/', this means the entire site is closed off. # The third paragraph indicates that all other robots should not visit URLs starting with /tmp or /log. # Note the '*' is a special token, meaning "any other User-agent"; you cannot use wildcard patterns or # regular expressions in either User-agent or Disallow lines. # Two common errors: # •Wildcards are _not_ supported: instead of 'Disallow: /tmp/*' just say 'Disallow: /tmp/'. # •You shouldn't put more than one path on a Disallow line (this may change in a future version of the spec) # /http://www.robotstxt.org/faq.html