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Robots Exclusion Protocol
RFC 9309

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2022-09-12
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2022-09-09
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9309, changed abstract to 'This document specifies and extends the "Robots Exclusion Protocol" method originally …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9309, changed abstract to 'This document specifies and extends the "Robots Exclusion Protocol" method originally defined by Martijn Koster in 1994 for service owners to control how content served by their services may be accessed, if at all, by automatic clients known as crawlers.  Specifically, it adds definition language for the protocol, instructions for handling errors, and instructions for caching.', changed pages to 12, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2022-09-09, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2022-09-09
(System) RFC published