What's in your "~/.wgetrc" file? If it contains this:
robots = off
Then wget will not respect a "robots.txt" file on the host from which it is retrieving files.
Before I learned of this option (accessible _only_ via this directive in the .wgetrc file), I did something too clever by half to get robots.txt ignored, so I know that wget does respect it.
Randall Schulz
At 18:14 2003-02-13, L Anderson wrote:
Using the latest of things Cygwin, I downloaded some stuff with wget from <http://cygwin.com> to peruse off-line and noticed a problem I can't explain:
The <http://cygwin.com/robots.txt> file has the entries:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /snapshots/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /cgi2-bin/
so wget should not download /cgi-bin/.
However, "wget -o cygwincom.log -m -p --no-parent -X /cygwin,/ml http://cygwin.com/"; downloads /cgi-bin anyway.
NB. "wget -o cygwincom.log -m -p --no-parent -X /cgi-bin,/cygwin,/ml http://cygwin.com/ doesn't download /cgi-bin
I ran a validity check on <http://cygwin.com/robots.txt> and found no errors.
Is this a bug in wget or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks,
Lowell Anderson
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