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Lewis John McGibbney updated NUTCH-1513:
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Assignee: (was: Lewis John McGibbney)
> Support Robots.txt for Ftp urls
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> Key: NUTCH-1513
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1513
> Project: Nutch
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.7, 2.2
> Reporter: Tejas Patil
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: robots.txt
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> As per [0], a FTP website can have robots.txt like [1]. In the nutch code,
> Ftp plugin is not parsing the robots file and accepting all urls.
> In "_src/plugin/protocol-ftp/src/java/org/apache/nutch/protocol/ftp/Ftp.java_"
> {noformat} public RobotRules getRobotRules(Text url, CrawlDatum datum) {
> return EmptyRobotRules.RULES;
> }{noformat}
> Its not clear of this was part of design or if its a bug.
> [0] :
> https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt
> [1] : ftp://example.com/robots.txt
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