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Paul Wilde 2025-01-06 19:59:04 +00:00
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@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ sensitive information.<br />
The whole thing is starting to snowball, so this is my statement.</p> The whole thing is starting to snowball, so this is my statement.</p>
<span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="the-app">The "App"</h3> <span id="continue-reading"></span><h3 id="the-app">The "App"</h3>
<p>For those that don't know me, I am an IT Professional, providing IT consultancy <p>For those that don't know me, I am an IT Professional, providing IT consultancy
service to businesses around my local area of Devon, UK.<br /> services to businesses around my local area of Devon, UK.<br />
I'm generally met with people who are happy to see me and trust my advice. I'm generally met with people who are happy to see me and trust my advice.
Sometimes though that is not the case.</p> Sometimes though that is not the case.</p>
<p>My client in question is a medium sized business in Devon. They employ <p>My client in question is a medium sized business in Devon. They employ
@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ those portal pages. We don't want people's sensitive information being indexed b
<p>The robots.txt looks something like this: <p>The robots.txt looks something like this:
<img src="/images/robotstxt.png" alt="A robots.txt file, showing many lines of portal URL addresses" /><br /> <img src="/images/robotstxt.png" alt="A robots.txt file, showing many lines of portal URL addresses" /><br />
There's about 510 lines like that.<br /> There's about 510 lines like that.<br />
(You'll notice I have taken the care to pixelise our the paths. I appreciate (You'll notice I have taken the care to pixelise out the paths. I appreciate
pixalisation can be undone, but due to the fact you'd need to know the base URL pixalisation can be undone, but due to the fact you'd need to know the base URL
for this to work, and if you had the base URL, you'd have the full robots.txt file for this to work, and if you had the base URL, you'd have the full robots.txt file
anyway, I feel no further actions on my part need to be taken here.)</p> anyway, I feel no further actions on my part need to be taken here.)</p>

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