larsfuse <l...@cl.no> added the comment:

> (...) refers users, for file structure, to 
> http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html. This says nothing about the effect of an 
> empty file, so I don't see this as a bug.

That is incorrect. From that url you can find:
> The presence of an empty "/robots.txt" file has no explicit associated 
> semantics, it will be treated as if it was not present, i.e. all robots will 
> consider themselves welcome.

So this is definitely a bug.

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