Wget ignores robot.txt entry

[Max Bowsher]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Lowell,
>
> What's in your "~/.wgetrc" file? If it contains this:
>
> robots = off
>
> Then wget will not respect a "robots.txt" file on the host from which
> it is retrieving files.
>
> Before I learned of this option (accessible _only_ via this directive
> in the .wgetrc file)

Or, on the command line -erobots=off :-)

Whilst this does control whether wget downloads robots.txt, a quick test
confirms that even when it does get robots.txt, it still wanders into
cgi-bin.

I'd suggest taking this to the wget list, except wget it currently
maintainer-less, and, it appears, bitrotted.

Max.


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