wget not respecting my robots.txt. Is there an interceptor?

Posted by Jane Wilkie on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Jane Wilkie
Published on 2011-06-29T17:55:40Z Indexed on 2011/06/30 0:30 UTC
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I have a website where I post csv files as a free service. Recently I have noticed that wget and libwww have been scraping pretty hard and I was wondering how to circumvent that even if only a little.

I have implemented a robots.txt policy. I posted it below..

User-agent: wget
Disallow: /

User-agent: libwww
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Issuing a wget from my totally independent ubuntu box shows that wget against my server just doesn't seem to work like so....

http://myserver.com/file.csv

Anyway I don't mind people just grabbing the info, I just want to implement some sort of flood control, like a wrapper or an interceptor.

Does anyone have a thought about this or could point me in the direction of a resource. I realize that it might not even be possible. Just after some ideas.

Janie

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