generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  Searched dillards.com policy/FAQ pages, robots.txt, the llms.txt Dillard's publishes,
  and the eBiz vendor extranet for any documented request quota, throttle, burst limit or
  rate-limit response header, 2026-09-06.
limit_count: 0
note: >-
  Dillard's documents NO API rate limits, because it publishes no API. The nearest thing
  to a machine-traffic policy Dillard's states is crawl guidance: robots.txt disallows the
  legacy /webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ commerce paths, and the first-party llms.txt asks
  agents to respect robots.txt and to use the canonical category/brand/product/store/policy
  URLs and the XML sitemap. Separately, the Akamai edge in front of www.dillards.com
  returns an HTTP 200 "Access Denied" interstitial to non-browser clients and throttles
  repeated automated requests — an undocumented bot-management control, not a published
  rate limit, and it is recorded here as observed behaviour rather than as policy.
limits: []
headers: []
observed:
  - scope: edge bot management (undocumented)
    host: www.dillards.com
    behaviour: >-
      Repeated automated requests are answered with a 377-byte HTML "Access Denied" body
      under HTTP status 200; a browser-shaped request set with a paced interval is served
      normally. No RateLimit-*, X-RateLimit-* or Retry-After header is returned.
    status_on_exhaustion: 200 (HTML interstitial, not 429)
    method: probed
    observed_on: '2026-09-06'
evidence:
  - url: https://www.dillards.com/robots.txt
    status: 200
    note: Real robots.txt; crawl directives only, no quota.
  - url: https://www.dillards.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
    note: First-party llms.txt; asks agents to respect robots.txt, states no limits.