RE: RobotRules fails on user-agents with spaces

2005-10-14 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Gisle Aas wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The problem... if I include a space in my robot's user agent, it >> will fail to recognize robots.txt records targeted to my robot. > > You are not allowed to have space in the user agent name. See section > "3.8 Product Tokens" of RFC 2616 [1]

Re: RobotRules fails on user-agents with spaces

2005-10-14 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Nigel Horne writes: > Perhaps it would help if WWW::RobotRules were to warn/die when setting > an agent with a space in? An excellent message would be "RFC2616 forbids > spaces in an agent's names". Impossible, because the whole user agent string *is* allowed to have spaces in it. It's just th

Re: RobotRules fails on user-agents with spaces

2005-10-14 Thread Nigel Horne
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 10:37, Gisle Aas wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The problem... if I include a space in my robot's user agent, it > > will fail to recognize robots.txt records targeted to my robot. > > You are not allowed to have space in the user agent name. See section > "3.8

Re: RobotRules fails on user-agents with spaces

2005-10-14 Thread Gisle Aas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem... if I include a space in my robot's user agent, it > will fail to recognize robots.txt records targeted to my robot. You are not allowed to have space in the user agent name. See section "3.8 Product Tokens" of RFC 2616 [1]. Isn't it an option to just

RobotRules fails on user-agents with spaces

2005-10-13 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
The problem... if I include a space in my robot's user agent, it will fail to recognize robots.txt records targeted to my robot. My robot's user agent: Hispanic Business Inc. Spider/1.0 Robots.txt file: User-agent: Hispanic Business Inc. Spider Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: / My robot will