At 04:15 PM 05/09/02 -0700, Hsiao Ketung Contr 61 CS/SCBN wrote:
>I have a question regarding the snippet from a SWISH configuration file:
>
>This is part of the configuration file.
># Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
># only their file names will be indexed.
>#FileRules pathname contains .*dir1
>#FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
>#FileRules title contains construction example pointers
>FileRules directory contains .htaccess
>
>
>Does it man if I use -s https swish-e  to index other URL I  can indexed
>their web server 
>protected directory using the above configuration ? 

Not without the password.  

>If this is the case, it goes both way, that means my web restricted access
>pages
>are not restricted to search engine such as SWISH. 
>
>Is this true ?

Nope.

  FileRules directory contains .htaccess

says to ignore indexing a directory that contains the file .htaccess when
using the -S fs access method.



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