Prevent bot visits to a few action urls via robots.txt#8913
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@gbp Using this trivial PR as an exercise for me to check if I've got the PR process right, before sending some more substantial ones :) |
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Relevant issue(s)
Relates to #8132 and PR #8223
What does this do?
It adds a number of action links as disallowed for bots. Not all bots seem to respect
robots.txtso a redundant approach is probably best, hence the overlap with #8223.Why was this needed?
A lot of bot traffic is hitting our site on these urls, without actually providing any useful content to bots, but still causing server load. In some cases (
/trackfor instance) the page visit creates a database record which is completely useless and uses up disk space. This aims at reducing this side effect.Implementation notes
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