Your site's robots.txt says AI crawlers are welcome. Your CDN might disagree.
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Every week another AI crawler shows up in your logs: ClaudeBot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended. Your robots.txt might allow all of them — and your CDN might still be answering with a 403 challenge page before the crawler ever sees your content. Nobody checks for that contradi…
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- 2026-09-15 23:28 · DEV Community — AI
Your site's robots.txt says AI crawlers are welcome. Your CDN might disagree.