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Robots Exclusion Protocol
draft-rep-wg-topic-00

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Martijn Koster , Gary Illyes , Henner Zeller , Lizzi Sassman
Last updated 2019-07-01
Replaced by draft-koster-rep
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft is available in these formats:

Abstract

This document standardizes and extends the "Robots Exclusion Protocol" <http://www.robotstxt.org/> method originally defined by Martijn Koster in 1996 for service owners to control how content served by their services may be accessed, if at all, by automatic clients known as crawlers.

Authors

Martijn Koster
Gary Illyes
Henner Zeller
Lizzi Sassman

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