On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Jack <[email protected]> wrote:

> What is the 'right way' to snag a copy of the robots.txt file from a web
> site?
> I know search enginges do it all the time before they search a site, so
> could I get it (if it is there by)
>
>   telnet <sitename> 80
>   get /robots.txt
>
> or what?
>
> ><> ... Jack
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/robots.txt

That will retrieve it, just like yours will.  Depends on how you are going
about it, but yes, via their web server.

Andy

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