RE: Proposed issue: site metadata hook

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net]
> Sent: 19 February, 2003 03:26
> To: www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Proposed issue: site metadata hook
> 
> 
> 
> Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote:
> > 
> > ....
> > A specific question to help me determine that: If the server owner
> > says "no crawlers at all on this server" and a tenant says "all my
> > own content can be crawled", should the tenant's content be crawled?
> 
> The server owner runs the HTTP server. No data can go in or 
> out of the 
> system without their explicit or implicit agreement.

Fine. Then we agree on that point.

> In 
> particular, they 
> can trivially block the MGET method or metadata header or whatever 
> emerges in their Apache configuration.

Well, the discussion about MGET versus other means of obtaining
resource descriptions is orthogonal to the issue of whether tenants
on a server can override the wishes of the server owner.

Servers could block GET or HEAD or POST just as trivially. So what.

Patrick

Received on Wednesday, 19 February 2003 03:13:37 UTC