I just discovered that the "robotparser" module interprets
a 403 ("Forbidden") status on a "robots.txt" file as meaning
"all access disallowed". That's unexpected behavior.
A major site ("http://www.aplus.net/robot.txt";) has their
"robots.txt" file set up that way.
There's no real "robots.txt" standard, unfortunately.
So it's not definitively a bug.
John Nagle
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