Don't allow crawlers to index the top-level user pages on lp subdomains if the user is deactivated

Bug #283830 reported by Eleanor Berger
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

We already stop crawlers from indexing the main user page on Launchpad, if the user is deactivated. This bug is for stopping also the top-level user pages for subdomains (like bugs. blueprints. answers. etc'...)

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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) wrote :

Importance HIGH. We're considering RCing this.

Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → intellectronica
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

If not RCed, it may save time to fix bug 103116 at the same time as this bug.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
assignee: Tom Berger (intellectronica) → nobody
importance: High → Low
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Don Marti (dmarti) wrote :

If the user is deactivated, the profile page should come back as 403. It helps comment spam filtering scripts to know that no, this is not a spammy domain, they had some spam and they got rid of it.

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