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Bug: Page Head has no robots meta tag

meta robots tag is displayed as a blank line in page source though twiki.pattern.tmpl shows robot tag line in template.

Test case

Look at any page. classic and pattern skin checked. This site also exhibits the same behaviour.

Environment

TWiki version: TWikiRelease01Sep2004
TWiki plugins: DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin, TWikiDrawPlugin, CalendarPlugin
Server OS: Solaris 2.8
Web server: apache 2.0.51
Perl version: 5.8.0
Client OS: RedHat 9.0
Web Browser: Firefox1.0

-- GeoffJohnston - 28 Sep 2004

Follow up

This is actually spec. The templates contain a <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />, which gets removed if the topic is not the top revision. Compare the HTML source of these two topic versions:

The idea is to prevent search engines from indexing older topic revisions.

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Sep 2004

Is there a way to include the robots meta for the print skins?

-- SamHasler - 28 Sep 2004

Would be useful, also for other skins like rss skin. Same for topics with any parameters, e.g. a sorted table. This sounds like a new PatchProposal.

-- PeterThoeny - 29 Sep 2004

Fix record

Topic revision: r4 - 29 Sep 2004 - 05:42:23 - PeterThoeny
 
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