Hide Your Web Interface / NFuse Servers From Search Engines

Tuesday, 15 February 2005 by Michel Roth

Thomas Koetzing and Brian Madden encourage you to hide your Webinterface / Nfuse servers from search engines using the "robots.txt" file. I strongly agree with them, although it won't make your Webinterface / Nfuse servers entirely invisible, it's the least you can do.

"The problem is that most people who use Citrix's Web Interface or NFuse products forget that all websites are indexed by Google, MSN, and other search engines. This means that typing a few specific keywords into a web search box can instantly deliver the URLs to hundreds of Citrix Web Interface login pages. For example, doing a Google search on "MetaFrame Presentation Server Login" (with quotes) will deliver you directly to the Web Interface login pages for over 70 companies..."

Read all about it here.