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dla06060
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Mar 15, 2023

Append text to incoming robots.txt request

We have had problematic crawling with bingbot and would like to use the crawl directive in the robots.txt: User-agent: bingbot Crawl-delay: 1 Since the robots.txt file varies by different websites ...
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dla06060
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Mar 15, 2023

Paulius that's correct. Ultimately all incoming F5 requests would append the text to the end of the robots.txt file request.

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Paulius
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Mar 15, 2023

dla06060 I don't believe you can add to the file on the response back from the server but alternatively you can use what I referenced above but it really should be performed on the server.