The on-demand crawler was built over allow_hosts plus every watched host.
webfetch reads a non-empty allow list as these and nothing else, so a config
with one watch and no allow_hosts at all silently narrowed on-demand reading
to the watched site. Every other url he pasted came back as a flat refusal
with nothing in the log to explain it. The two crawlers now take two host
lists from one crawlHosts helper.
Crawl-delay was parsed into Rules and never read. The only pacing was the
fetcher's flat one request per host per second, which cannot express what a
site asked for, and deploy/README claimed the field was honoured. Page now
waits it out between the robots fetch and the page fetch, and a delay longer
than the turn fails the read instead of hanging it.
A robots.txt that failed was treated as no rules, so a site whose server was
having a bad minute became a site with no restrictions. A 5xx now refuses the
crawl. A 404 still means unrestricted, which is what the standard says.
The refusal check matched substrings of webfetch's message text from a package
that cannot import webfetch, so a reworded error would have silently turned
into a robots verdict. internal/crawl now exports ErrFetchRefused and
ErrFetchStatus and the adapter in cmd/mavend maps the webfetch sentinels onto
them. Robots group selection picks the longest matching agent prefix instead
of the first one in file order.
queryWeb passed a claim it could not serve when no crawler was configured, so
an unconfigured deployment answered a web question with an apology instead of
falling through to the model.
Found in review of #67.
The network fallback behind the local sources, off unless configured.
internal/crawl is pure: a stdlib robots.txt parser (group specificity,
wildcards, Crawl-delay, cached per host), HTML-to-plaintext extraction, and a
watcher that notes a watched page only when its text changed. It has no store
access and no net/http; cmd/mavend/crawls.go is the impure half.
Every limit is code and tested: the guarded fetcher from #258 enforces the host
allowlist/denylist, refuses private addresses in the dialer Control hook (so DNS
rebinding and each redirect hop are covered), caps size and redirects, times out,
and spaces requests per host. A robots.txt Disallow is refused with no override.
On demand, reading is a query source placed last in the chain, after his memory,
his notes, and the local Kiwix ZIMs once those are wired: no URL in the
utterance means no fetch, and only the URL ever leaves the box. Scheduled
watches write notes and announce nothing.
The vendored tree has no x/net/html, goquery or temoto/robotstxt, so the parsers
are stdlib. No new dependency.
kami