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Originally Posted by vicz
Did they ever answer the question over exactly how they will supposedly avoid processing password protected forums? I remember K*nt saying they would not process password protected content, but I don't remember him saying how. The reason I bring this up is that it is one area where consent to view can be definitely shown to have been denied. (There is always the argument of a reasonable expectation of consent for 'published' website even if subsequently found to have disclaimers).
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If you visit a site using Access authentication, then your browser sends an "Authorization:" header with an obfusticated username:password (something like Authorization: Basic r3y1r45DCB67E89BOZbdAV==) with every request after you've logged on - they can check for that header and ignore your request and the server's response.
If a site uses other methods such as cookies to verify that you've logged in then I can't see them checking, although I suppose it might be possible to check for common cookie names used to store log-ins by forum software. They can also check the robots.txt to see if google is disallowed from indexing the pages.