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 is a better example: take Netflix. You can go to RSS
portion of your account and get your outstanding queue as RSS feed.
If everyone's personal queues would come up in searches, that
wouldn't make much sense.

According to yahoo, you can put a directive into robots.txt and this
would prevent yahoo spider to index the page. Unfortunately it
doesn't work, it still appears in the search.

So I tried robots.txt, I tried setting up various HTTP expiration
headers, so far nothing helps so far. This may end up being done on
a corporate level.

See this link:
http://my.yahoo.com/s/faq/rss/publishers.html#preventuse
This doesn't seem to work.

Andre

--- In aggregators@yahoogroups.com, Julian Bond <julian_bond@v...>
wrote:
> Andre Taube <andre.taube@s...> 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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