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    <bug>
          <bug_id>29291</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2015-11-15 02:52:10 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>robots.txt on 1 site supposedly blocking some URLs in other sites</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2015-11-15 02:52:10 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>Validator</product>
          <component>check</component>
          <version>HEAD</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Linux</op_sys>
          <bug_status>NEW</bug_status>
          <resolution></resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://cold32.com</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Nick Levinson">Nick_Levinson</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking">dave.null</assigned_to>
          <cc>dave.null</cc>
    
    <cc>www-validator-cvs</cc>
          
          <qa_contact name="qa-dev tracking">www-validator-cvs</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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    <commentid>124210</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Nick Levinson">Nick_Levinson</who>
    <bug_when>2015-11-15 02:52:10 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>The W3C Link Checker, when I entered &lt;http://cold32.com&gt;, allowed 10 levels of recursion (more than needed), and set it to send the Referer, didn&apos;t check a small percentage of links because it supposedly was blocked by &lt;robots.txt&gt;, but I saw no block in http://cold32.com/robots.txt and don&apos;t know why any other robots.txt file would control this:

from &lt;http://cold32.com/4/clothing-and-hair/2/where-to-buy-coats.htm&gt;: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7213/pg7213.txt

from &lt;http://cold32.com/5/action/6/showers-but-not-heaters.htm&gt;: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2094925/

from probably most *.htm and *.html pages: http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js

For this bug report, I guessed the component and the version; the version is actually 4.81.</thetext>
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