: Avoid https results in Google Custom Search Engine My web requests a client certificate when you connect through https. I want the certificate pop up dialog to show only through the login screen.

@Speyer207

Nowadays Google prefers to index when given the option of both SSL and non-SSL. To avoid the HTTPS being indexed, but accessible to users you can select one of the options below.

Canonical Links

By far the best solution is to use canonical links, this will tell Google the preferred URL for both their crawler and users.

Header No Index

Sometimes using canonical links is not always practical when dealing with static websites, this problem can be easily tackled by using a noindex header response on all pages that use , a typical example of how to setup no index in the .htaccess file


Header set X-Robots-Tag noindex env=HTTPS


Redirect SSL Robots

Since Google treats SSL as a separate site, its possible to have two robot files, one for SSL, one for non-SSL, obviously in the SSL you deny access by using something like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots-ssl.txt

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