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Disallow forms (with CAPTCHA) to bots

backups requested to merge github/fork/chenejac/disallow-forms-for-bots into main

Created by: chenejac

VIVO GitHub issue: 3935

Linked VIVO PR

What does this pull request do?

Disallow access to /contact and /forgot-password to bots (at least to bots which respect robots.txt)

What's new?

robots.txt is updated

How should this be tested?

Run VIVO and try to access to /contact and /forgot-password from the web browser (this should work), and from an http client with specified user-agent to some of the popular crawlers

Interested parties

Tag (@ mention) interested parties or, if unsure, @VIVO-project/vivo-committers

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