If the USPS servers have PHP installed, there is a moderately simple method of excluding any viewer, by either IP or name, from viewing any/all (your choice as webmaster) pages on your site.<br><br>If it is not installed, then I can be of little assistance in this matter.<br>
<br>Lt. Julian Fiander<br> Birmingham Power Squadron<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Penneman, Roger B <<a href="mailto:roger.b.penneman@lmco.com">roger.b.penneman@lmco.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My impression was that the password-protected area mentioned in the<br>
beginning of the thread would be blocked from search engines, as well as<br>
anyone else without the password. Doesn't the meta tag "robot"<br>
accomplish the same thing as robot.txt, but applied to individual pages?<br>
<br>
Roger Penneman<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: John R. Bradley [mailto:<a href="mailto:jrb@accurecord.com">jrb@accurecord.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:09 AM<br>
To: 'Dan Bartell'; 'Phil Arcuni'<br>
Cc: Penneman, Roger B; 'two way communication for webmasters'<br>
Subject: RE: [Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only<br>
<br>
Isn't this a question of having a facility to maintain robots.txt which<br>
sits at \web\webroot and is suppose to tell indexing robots where not to<br>
go? Or alternatively if we had a policy of allowing a "secure" directory<br>
under any localusps directory that wants a secure directory we could add<br>
a statement like DISALLOW \localusps\*\secure and accomplish the desired<br>
result.<br>
John Bradley<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Dan Bartell [mailto:<a href="mailto:dtb@usps.org">dtb@usps.org</a>]<br>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:12 PM<br>
To: Phil Arcuni<br>
Cc: John Bradley; Penneman, Roger B; two way communication for<br>
webmasters<br>
</div>Subject: Re: [Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only<br>
<br>
Understand Guys that this is what Dave turned up and I did tell you guys<br>
a while back that one of the major problems was that google would index<br>
everything.<br>
<br>
You need to get Dave to tell people how to exclude directories from the<br>
search and he needs to manage that.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Dan<br>
PS: Other than this problem the search works great At 15:36 3/12/2008,<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Phil Arcuni wrote:<br>
>Hello,<br>
><br>
>This scheme is still posted, and you are the most knowledgeable on the<br>
>subject. I did notice that the older IP address is still showing.<br>
>Please respond to the query at your earliest convenience.<br>
><br>
>Best, Phil<br>
><br>
>P/R/C Philip Arcuni, SN<br>
>Information Technology Committee<br>
><br>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Penneman, Roger B"<br>
><<a href="mailto:roger.b.penneman@lmco.com">roger.b.penneman@lmco.com</a>><br>
>To: <<a href="mailto:plarcuni@sprynet.com">plarcuni@sprynet.com</a>><br>
>Cc: "two way communication for webmasters" <<a href="mailto:webmaster_forum@usps.org">webmaster_forum@usps.org</a>><br>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:48 PM<br>
>Subject: [Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only<br>
><br>
><br>
>>Is this technique for creating password-protected areas on squadron<br>
>>websites still valid?<br>
>><a href="http://www.usps.org/national/itcom/shared/help/simple_password.html" target="_blank">http://www.usps.org/national/itcom/shared/help/simple_password.html</a><br>
>><br>
>>Lately it seems that anything on the national server is available to<br>
>>Google, to the point that I now have to scrub our newsletter before<br>
>>posting a pdf version. So I want to set up a secure area for pages<br>
>>that contain private information. Any tips?<br>
>><br>
>>Thanks.<br>
>><br>
>>Roger Penneman<br>
>>Fort Worth<br>
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