[SPEC] Encouraging HTTP Proxies to support Gemini hosts self-blacklisting
Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Mon Feb 22 01:32:27 GMT 2021
It was thus said that the Great Emma Humphries once stated:
> What's the use case behind blocking proxies?
Some people don't want web crawlers to crawl their Gemini space. Web
crawlers can be ... stupidly bad [1]. For me, it's for web proxies that
*DON'T* have a robots.txt preventing web crawlers through the proxy.
-spc
[1] http://boston.conman.org/2019/07/09-12
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