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Bug 27986 - Setting robots.txt to allow http://browsershots.org/
Setting robots.txt to allow http://browsershots.org/
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 13307
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
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: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2011-03-11 00:52 UTC by billinghurst
Modified: 2011-03-11 01:22 UTC (History)
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Description billinghurst 2011-03-11 00:52:27 UTC 
When trying to get a browser comparison of pages at English Wikisource, I went to try the site
http://browsershots.org/

Upon trying, it reports

Browsershots was blocked by secure.wikimedia.org/robots.txt. 
Please read the FAQ
http://browsershots.org/faq#Blockedbyrobots. 

At that page it suggests the resolution

User-agent: Browsershots
Disallow:

I am told that there can be editing at [[Mediawiki:Robots.txt]], though apart not feeling comfortable editing that file, it may be something worthy of a global review.  At face value, it would not seem to be a high level access from the site as from my looking it is a "push" type service done on request.  Thanks.
Comment 1 MZMcBride 2011-03-11 00:57:52 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13307 ***
Comment 2 billinghurst 2011-03-11 01:22:36 UTC 
Found out that it is the secure server that is being blocked, so not exact duplicate. It is reasonable that we utilise standard urls for the generation of the screenshots.
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