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What robots.txt Hides

Lab for Search Engines, Crawlers & robots.txt

Scenario

robots.txt is a polite request to crawlers, and a gift to you. It lists exactly the paths the owner would rather you didn't visit. Read it, then visit one of them.

Objective

Let the site's own robots.txt point you at the path it doesn't want indexed.

lab ~ what robots.txt hidesnothing real runs
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