Introduction to Robot Application Functions

Typically, you might modify the behavior of a search engine robot filter by using the search engine administration interface or the predefined robot application functions (RAFs).

When you want to modify the behavior of the search engine robot filters in a way that is not accommodated by the standard filter functions, you will need to create your own robot application functions (RAFs). Robot filters are defined in the file filter.conf. Filter definitions consist of filter directives, which each specify a robot application function.