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Re: [aggregators] Prevent my.yahoo to make my RSS feed searchable

Andre Taube <andre.taube@...> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:16:59
>Does anyone know how to prevent My Yahoo making a private RSS feed
>searchable. So if I have an RSS feed that I want someone to add to
>their My Yahoo, I don't want anyone go to "add content" and being able
>to find that feed.
>
>Any pointers are greatly appreciated!

If it's private, don't put it on the web. ;-)

Seriously though, the only sure fire way to do this is to use http auth
and require an id and password. Most aggregators have a way of storing
these so that authorised people will be able to read it. But it will
stop a spider (like Yahoo) from accessing it.

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Hi folks, Does anyone know how to prevent My Yahoo making a private RSS feed searchable. So if I have an RSS feed that I want someone to add to their My...
Andre Taube
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Jun 8, 2005
11:49 pm

Andre Taube <andre.taube@...> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:16:59 ... If it's private, don't put it on the web. ;-) Seriously though, the only sure fire way to...
Julian Bond
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Jun 9, 2005
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... Yup, Julian is right. My Yahoo! currently doesn't store your login credentials or handle "private" feeds. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny,...
Jeremy Zawodny
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Jun 9, 2005
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One more thing: If I add the following to /robots.txt User-agent: YahooFeedSeeker Disallow: / It'll prevent yahoo to access the site. See my access_log...
Andre Taube
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Jun 9, 2005
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Julian, I agree about the password, but the feeds are am referring are "kind of" private. I just don't want them to show up in my yahoo content search. Here...
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