how to exclude https page with robots

[loki]

can someone help me exclude a secure page i have from gg(currently using the hosting provider's digital cert)

the URL of the secure page is

https://cobra.xssl.net/%7Edomain.com/payment.html

actually anything under this root would be even better. i guess it would be something like:

User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: https://cobra.xssl.net/

TIA

[g1smd]

That last line should be:

Disallow: /

[loki]

as i understand it, that will disallow EVERYTHING on the domain from googlebot!!!

[Hope]

You are sending people off your site into a shopping cart?

If this is the case, you might have to rely on a robots meta tag of index, nofollow.

[loki]

IT'S A STANDARD PAGE REPURPOSED AS A SSL PAYMENT PAGE. UNFORTUNATELY GOOGLE GRABBED IT, FOLLOWED THE LINKS AND NOW I HAVE 'DUPLICATE' (oops) pages starting with https.

i've added noindex,follow and re-written all the links as absolute links with http prefixes.

i just thought that adding the exclisuon to the robots.txt file might speed things up.

[g1smd]

Yes, true, but the robots.txt file goes in the root of the domain, and specifies which folders and files are to be excluded. You cannot use the robots.txt file to state a domain for exclusion.

Disallow: https://cobra.xssl.net/ is not valid code.

Putting Disallow: / in the root folder of cobra.xssl.net is valid, but if that isn't what you want to do, then you are using completely the wrong thing here.

[loki]

sounds like you know what you're talking about!

the server i am on for this domain is called 'cobra' hence when i use their digital certicate the ssl page has the https://cobra.xssl.net/%7Edomain.com/payment.html URL but conbra is not my domain name.

i think i'll go with the noindex,follow tag for now.

thanks for your help.