Search Appliance
Syntax: one or more user-agent strings, one per line
This is a list of user agents to respect when checking
robots.txt on a site. The robots.txt group with the
User-agent string that is a case-insensitive substring of the
earliest agent listed in Robots.txt Agents will be used; i.e.
the Robots.txt Agents should be listed highest-priority first.
If multiple robots.txt groups match the same agent, the group
with the longest substring-matching User-agent is used. If no
agents match, and a group for agent "*" is present, it is
used. The default value for this setting is
"thunderstonesa".
For example, changing this setting to MyBot and Googlebot
and given this robots.txt file:
User-agent: Google
Disallow: /some/google/dir
User-agent: MyBot
Disallow: /some/other/dir
then the Search Appliance will not walk /some/other/dir, but will
still walk /some/google/dir: while both agents
substring-match, and Google is a longer substring, MyBot
is listed first in Robots.txt Agents and is thus higher
priority.
Given this robots.txt with the same setting:
User-agent: Google
Disallow: /some/google/dir
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /some/bot/dir
then the Search Appliance would not walk /some/bot/dir, because while
both agents substring-match Googlebot, Googlebot is the
longer match.