Host politeness
Delaying or limiting requests so one origin is not overloaded.
What Host politeness does not show
It is an operator behavior rather than a guarantee in robots.txt.
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Questions about Host politeness
What is Host politeness?
Delaying or limiting requests so one origin is not overloaded.
What does Host politeness not show or guarantee?
Delaying or limiting requests so one origin is not overloaded. It is an operator behavior rather than a guarantee in robots.txt.
Which area of the glossary does Host politeness belong to?
Crawling and indexing: How a crawler discovers, schedules, fetches and selects pages, and why a fetched page is not an indexed one.
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