# login\_required even redirects robots.txt to /login
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-required-even-redirects-robots-txt-to-login/34062
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2 באוקטובר, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-required-even-redirects-robots-txt-to-login/34062 "2015-10-02T18:03:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [2 באוקטובר, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-required-even-redirects-robots-txt-to-login/34062/1 "2015-10-02T18:03:40Z")
Seems like `login_required` is a bit too strict:
On a forum with `login_required` enabled, we can’t even retrieve robots.txt. That seems undesirable to me.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2 באוקטובר, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-required-even-redirects-robots-txt-to-login/34062/2 "2015-10-02T18:58:25Z")
Yeah `robots.txt` should be immune to login required checks, I guess. Can you add that to your list @zogstrip
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [15 באוקטובר, 2015, 9:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-required-even-redirects-robots-txt-to-login/34062/3 "2015-10-15T09:43:15Z")
Here’s the fix 💐
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d75cc67d86c3f5042a939bc19a75e6258fc87657](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d75cc67d86c3f5042a939bc19a75e6258fc87657)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [15 באוקטובר, 2015, 9:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-required-even-redirects-robots-txt-to-login/34062/4 "2015-10-15T09:43:17Z")