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Security: Add X-Robots-Tag header and robots.txt file to control crawlers #4574
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As a user with a private photo collection, I do not want search engines such as Google to crawl, index and/or cache the content on my server so that it remains private.
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X-Robots-TagHTTP header controls how search engines index and crawl web pages and other content. It works similarly to arobots.txtfile or the robots meta tag in HTML, but offers more flexibility and can be applied to any file type, not just web pages. This makes it particularly useful for controlling the indexing of multimedia content:Related Issues: