Make isExplicitlyDisallowed() return undefined if invalid URL and add caution

README.md

@@ -67,9 +67,19 @@ This will return `undefined` if the URL isn't valid for this robots.txt.
 
 **boolean or undefined**
 
+> [!CAUTION]
+> This is not part of the robots.txt specification and should only be used with
+> the websites owners permission.
+> This method is only intended for special purposes where a user-agent shouldn't
+> fallback to matching against global (*) rules.
+>
+> An example of this behaviour is [Google AdsBot](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-special-case-crawlers)
+> which must be explicitly excluded. This is done with the website owners permission.
+
 Returns trues if explicitly disallowed for the specified user agent (User Agent wildcards are discarded).
 
 This will return undefined if the URL is not valid for this robots.txt file.
+
 ### getMatchingLineNumber(url, [ua])
 
 **number or undefined**

Robots.js

@@ -376,9 +376,9 @@ Robots.prototype._getRule = function (url, ua, explicit) {
 
 	var rules = this._rules[userAgent];
 	if (!explicit) {
-		rules = rules || this._rules['*']
+		rules = rules || this._rules['*'];
 	}
-	rules = rules || []
+	rules = rules || [];
 
 	var path = urlEncodeToUpper(parsedUrl.pathname + parsedUrl.search);
 	var rule = findRule(path, rules);
@@ -438,21 +438,23 @@ Robots.prototype.isDisallowed = function (url, ua) {
 };
 
 /**
- * Returns trues if explicitly disallowed 
+ * Returns trues if explicitly disallowed
  * for the specified user agent (User Agent wildcards are discarded).
- * 
+ *
  * This will return undefined if the URL is not valid for this robots.txt file.
+ *
  * @param  {string}  url
  * @param  {string}  ua
  * @return {boolean?}
  */
-Robots.prototype.isExplicitlyDisallowed = function(url, ua) {	
+Robots.prototype.isExplicitlyDisallowed = function (url, ua) {
 	var rule = this._getRule(url, ua, true);
 	if (typeof rule === 'undefined') {
-		return true;
+		return;
 	}
+
 	return !(!rule || rule.allow);
-}
+};
 
 /**
  * Gets the crawl delay if there is one.

test/Robots.js

@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ describe('Robots', function () {
 		var robots = robotsParser(url, contents);
 
 		expect(robots.isExplicitlyDisallowed(url, userAgent)).to.equal(false)
-	})
+	});
 
 	it('should be disallowed when user agent equal robots rule in explicit mode', function () {
 		var contents = [
@@ -886,5 +886,18 @@ describe('Robots', function () {
 		var robots = robotsParser(url, contents);
 
 		expect(robots.isExplicitlyDisallowed(url, userAgent)).to.equal(true)
-	})
+	});
+
+	it('should return undefined when given an invalid URL in explicit mode', function () {
+		var contents = [
+			'User-agent: SomeBot',
+			'Disallow: /',
+		].join('\n')
+
+		var url = 'https://www.example.com/hello'
+		var userAgent = 'SomeBot';
+		var robots = robotsParser('http://example.com', contents);
+
+		expect(robots.isExplicitlyDisallowed(url, userAgent)).to.equal(undefined)
+	});
 });