[cap-talk] Toolbars and unguessable URLs

[Jasvir Nagra]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Tyler Close <tyler.close at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM, ♘ stay <stay at google.com> wrote:
>> Browser toolbars from internet search companies routinely capture URLs
>> that users go to and then index them.  This seems like a Very Bad
>> Thing with respect to URLs as capabilities.
>
> Will they behave if given an appropriate robots.txt file?

Whether a toolbar should honor robots.txt aside, an appropriate
robots.txt file might be hard to write given that the robots.txt
consensus spec suggests that a "#" starts a comment and doesn't
provide a way to escape characters.

> --Tyler
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Jasvir Nagra
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