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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by C1sc0cat on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:42AM (#20333571)
Then you should serve 503
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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by inlined on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:48AM (#20399216)
5xx means that the server made a mistake. 4xx means that the caller made a mistake. Sending a request to a GONE url is canonically classified as a “user” or sender error.
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