Should I add a "nofollow" attribute to download links, or disallow the URLs in robots.txt?

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Published on 2011-09-03T04:08:44Z Indexed on 2012/06/25 3:23 UTC
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I have a download link very similar to Opera's one - it's just a script that sends the file. It doesn't have an extension and there's no obvious way to tell that it's actually a download link.

So since I don't want robots to crawl this link, do I need to add it to robots.txt or maybe add a "nofollow" attribute to it? I see that on Opera's website they didn't do either of this, so perhaps it's not necessary?

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