PhabricatorRobotsController.php
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PhabricatorRobotsController.php
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			<?php

			final class PhabricatorRobotsController extends PhabricatorController {

			public function shouldRequireLogin() {
			return false;
			}

			public function processRequest() {
			$out = array();

			// Prevent indexing of '/diffusion/', since the content is not generally
			// useful to index, web spiders get stuck scraping the history of every
			// file, and much of the content is Ajaxed in anyway so spiders won't even
			// see it. These pages are also relatively expensive to generate.

			// Note that this still allows commits (at '/rPxxxxx') to be indexed.
			// They're probably not hugely useful, but suffer fewer of the problems
			// Diffusion suffers and are hard to omit with 'robots.txt'.

			$out[] = 'User-Agent: *';
			$out[] = 'Disallow: /diffusion/';

			// Add a small crawl delay (number of seconds between requests) for spiders
			// which respect it. The intent here is to prevent spiders from affecting
			// performance for users. The possible cost is slower indexing, but that
			// seems like a reasonable tradeoff, since most Phabricator installs are
			// probably not hugely concerned about cutting-edge SEO.
			$out[] = 'Crawl-delay: 1';

			$content = implode("\n", $out)."\n";

			return id(new AphrontPlainTextResponse())
			->setContent($content)
			->setCacheDurationInSeconds(phutil_units('2 hours in seconds'));
			}
			}