RobotRules.java

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package org.apache.nutch.protocol;

import java.net.URL;

/**
 * This class holds the rules which were parsed from a robots.txt file, and can
 * test paths against those rules.
 */
public interface RobotRules {
  /**
   * Get expire time
   */
  public long getExpireTime();

  /**
   * Get Crawl-Delay, in milliseconds. This returns -1 if not set.
   */
  public long getCrawlDelay();

  /**
   * Returns <code>false</code> if the <code>robots.txt</code> file
   * prohibits us from accessing the given <code>url</code>, or
   * <code>true</code> otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isAllowed(URL url);

}