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Robots.txt Won't Save You

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Re: Robots.txt Won't Save You

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> This matters because in an ideal world all client requests would have the correct stated User-Agent so that website administrators could manage appropriate access.

The reason that it's necessary to spoof the user-agent is that so many websites mishandle it to begin with. Websites in general brought this state of things on themselves.