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I'm pretty sure everyone with a crawler has hit this sort of problem before. The first startup I was at did with someone's wiki that had "delete" links everywhere with no auth.



Now that I've hit it once, I watch out for websites with this problem. I was surprised to notice that a Fortune50 tech company's internal employee-personal-webpages-maker-thingie had that issue. And then a week later they asked me if I could crawl their internal web. Uh, no, who knows what other internal systems had that problem?




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