Re: alta vista and virtualvin.com
John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.edu)
Mon, 03 Jun 1996 12:04:05 -0400
i have always thought that one builds a site with a couple of fairly static
pages under which the dynamic stuff is accessable. this provides a way to
index the site. the static pages are pointed to by robots.txt. i don't
see an unsolved problem here, but i'm not a heavy shtml, et al, user --
rather a java fan.
the w3 has an html3.2 instead-of-cookies, btw. admittedly if robots ignore
robots.txt and become mired in informational quicksand then the server
would either need to internally maintain somekind of cookies scheme (which
is anti statlessness) or use cookies or OBJECTs to keep anyone, including
dumb machines, out of quicksand.
-john