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    Issue 21469: Mitigate risk of false positives with robotparser. · a5413c49
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    * Repair the broken link to norobots-rfc.txt.
    
    * HTTP response codes >= 500 treated as a failed read rather than as a not
    found.  Not found means that we can assume the entire site is allowed.  A 5xx
    server error tells us nothing.
    
    * A successful read() or parse() updates the mtime (which is defined to be "the
      time the robots.txt file was last fetched").
    
    * The can_fetch() method returns False unless we've had a read() with a 2xx or
    4xx response.  This avoids false positives in the case where a user calls
    can_fetch() before calling read().
    
    * I don't see any easy way to test this patch without hitting internet
    resources that might change or without use of mock objects that wouldn't
    provide must reassurance.
    a5413c49
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