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Ken Krugler commented on NUTCH-731: ----------------------------------- This is definitely an issue - I've been pinging various domains while testing robots.txt handling in bixo, and many of them will do a redirect if you use http://<domain>/robots.txt, to http://www.<domain>/robots.txt. > Redirection of robots.txt in RobotRulesParser > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: NUTCH-731 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-731 > Project: Nutch > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: fetcher > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Julien Nioche > Attachments: NUTCH-731.patch > > > The patch attached allows to follow one level of redirection for robots.txt > files. A similar issue was mentioned in NUTCH-124 and has been marked as > fixed a long time ago but the problem remained, at least when using Fetcher2 > . Mathijs Homminga pointed to the problem in a mail to the nutch-dev list in > March. > I have been using this patch for a while now on a large cluster and noticed > that the ratio of robots_denied per fetchlist went up, meaning that at least > we are now getting restrictions we would not have had before (and getting > less complaints from webmasters at the same time) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.