[issue35457] robotparser reads empty robots.txt file as "all denied"

2018-12-11 Thread larsfuse
New submission from larsfuse : The standard (http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html) says: > To allow all robots complete access: > User-agent: * > Disallow: > (or just create an empty "/robots.txt" file, or don't use one at all) Here I give python an empty file:

[issue35457] robotparser reads empty robots.txt file as "all denied"

2018-12-17 Thread larsfuse
larsfuse added the comment: > (...) refers users, for file structure, to > http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html. This says nothing about the effect of an > empty file, so I don't see this as a bug. That is incorrect. From that url you can find: > The presence of an empty &