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Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#9601 new defect

Disallow robot navigation for edit pages

Reported by: anatoly techtonik <techtonik@…> Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone: next-major-releases
Component: wiki system Version:
Severity: minor Keywords: noindex
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Description

Quite often search results contain links to Trac wiki pages that lead to ?action=edit URLs. These could be disallowed for crawlers.

​http://www.google.com/search?q=genshi+%3Faction%3Dedit

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comment:1 by Christian Boos, 14 years ago

Component: general → wiki system
Keywords: noindex added
Milestone: → next-major-0.1X
Priority: normal → low
Severity: normal → minor

We currently generate something like: 

   <form method="get" action="/wiki/GenshiTutorial" id="modifypage"> 
                <div> 
                  <input type="hidden" name="action" value="edit" /> 
                      <input type="submit" value="Edit this page" /> 
                </div> 
              </form>

I wonder if changing the "get" to a "post" would make the bots less likely to follow and index the resulting page?

Besides the edit page could itself contain a "NOINDEX" meta tag (see #478).

comment:2 by anatoly techtonik <techtonik@…>, 14 years ago

IMHO 'post' should do the trick if there are no other links, but this can only be confirmed after comparing spider's activity in server's log. How about t.e.o?

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