Andre Burgaud <andre.burg...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Thanks @xtreak for providing some clarification on this behavior! I can write 
some tests to cover this behavior, assuming that we agree that an empty file 
means "unlimited access". This was worded as such in the old internet draft 
from 1996 (section 3.2.1 in https://www.robotstxt.org/norobots-rfc.txt). The 
current draft is more ambiguous with "If no group satisfies either condition, 
or no groups are present at all, no rules apply." 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-koster-rep-00#section-2.2.1

https://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html clearly states that an empty file 
gives full access, but I'm getting lost in figuring out which is the official 
spec at the moment :-)

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