Yann Stettler <stettler@cohprog.com> has a patch that
does just what you are asking. I do not see it on the ftp site
so you may want to contact him directly.

(We should get that HTTP NoContents patch posted, yes?)

	Mark

At 12:32 PM 1/27/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Now that I've got the spider working, I'd like him to ignore some files.
>Specifically I'd like it to ignore files of the form *.wwwstat.html.  I
>tried adding .wwwstat.html to the NoContents directive but that reduced my
>contents to 0 since it excluded all .html files :-).  Other than stuffing
>them off in some other directory with I could then exclude with robots.txt,
>is there another way (when spidering) to tell it to ignore files that match
>a certain pattern?
>
>Bruce
>
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