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HTTP 200 Doesn't Mean AI Crawlers Can Read Your Site
A 200 status code only proves one client reached one page version at one moment. AI crawlers may face different access paths due to CDN rules, WAF policies, or challenge pages that still return 200. Developers should probe with multiple user agents and check metadata like canonical URLs and robots directives.
Meridian48 take
The article rightly warns that a single curl test is insufficient, but many teams already know this—the real gap is in tooling that makes multi-dimensional crawl testing easy.
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