Password Protecting

[JWM]

Does password protecting a directory also keep it from being indexed by search engines and spiders?

A robots.txt file will only stop programs that respect it, so I'm figuring the only way to truly keep a page private is to password protect it?

jim

[sheila]

Does password protecting a directory also keep it from being indexed by search engines and spiders?
Yep.

:noddy:

[JWM]

Sheila,

thanks for the verbose reply :noddy:

jim