diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 58ee55ba..8771c014 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2009-07-05  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
 
+	* html-url.c (tag_handle_meta): Handle meta name="robots"
+	properly: deal with whitespace, commas after...
+
 	* netrc.c (parse_netrc): Rename local-scope variable "quote" to
 	"qmark", to avoid conflict with the function name.
 
diff --git a/src/html-url.c b/src/html-url.c
index 68a8bc3c..218659d4 100644
--- a/src/html-url.c
+++ b/src/html-url.c
@@ -590,15 +590,25 @@ tag_handle_meta (int tagid, struct taginfo *tag, struct map_context *ctx)
         {
           while (*content)
             {
-              /* Find the next occurrence of ',' or the end of
-                 the string.  */
-              char *end = strchr (content, ',');
-              if (end)
-                ++end;
-              else
-                end = content + strlen (content);
+              char *end;
+              /* Skip any initial whitespace. */
+              content += strspn (content, " \f\n\r\t\v");
+              /* Find the next occurrence of ',' or whitespace,
+               * or the end of the string.  */
+              end = content + strcspn (content, ", \f\n\r\t\v");
               if (!strncasecmp (content, "nofollow", end - content))
                 ctx->nofollow = true;
+              /* Skip past the next comma, if any. */
+              if (*end == ',')
+                ++end;
+              else
+                {
+                  end = strchr (end, ',');
+                  if (end)
+                    ++end;
+                  else
+                    end = content + strlen (content);
+                }
               content = end;
             }
         }
diff --git a/tests/ChangeLog b/tests/ChangeLog
index 3e233e05..9ee2bb08 100644
--- a/tests/ChangeLog
+++ b/tests/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-07-05  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
+
+	* Test-meta-robots.px: Added.
+	
+	* run-px: Add Test-meta-robots.px to the list.
+
 2009-07-03  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
 
 	* Test-ftp-iri-disabled.px, Test-iri-disabled.px:
diff --git a/tests/Test-meta-robots.px b/tests/Test-meta-robots.px
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..2560369a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Test-meta-robots.px
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use HTTPTest;
+
+# This test checks that Wget parses "nofollow" when it appears in <meta
+# name="robots"> tags, regardless of where in a list of comma-separated
+# values it appears, and regardless of spelling.
+#
+# Three different files contain links to the file "bombshell.html", each
+# with "nofollow" set, at various positions in a list of values for a
+# <meta name="robots"> tag, and with various degrees of separating
+# whitesspace. If bombshell.html is downloaded, the test
+# has failed.
+
+###############################################################################
+
+my $nofollow_start = <<EOF;
+<meta name="roBoTS" content="noFolLow ,  foo, bar ">
+<a href="/bombshell.html">Don't follow me!</a>
+EOF
+
+my $nofollow_mid = <<EOF;
+<meta name="rObOts" content=" foo  ,  NOfOllow ,  bar ">
+<a href="/bombshell.html">Don't follow me!</a>
+EOF
+
+my $nofollow_end = <<EOF;
+<meta name="RoBotS" content="foo,BAr,   nofOLLOw    ">
+<a href="/bombshell.html">Don't follow me!</a>
+EOF
+
+my $nofollow_solo = <<EOF;
+<meta name="robots" content="nofollow">
+<a href="/bombshell.html">Don't follow me!</a>
+EOF
+
+# code, msg, headers, content
+my %urls = (
+    '/start.html' => {
+        code => "200",
+        msg => "Ok",
+        headers => {
+            "Content-type" => "text/html",
+        },
+        content => $nofollow_start,
+    },
+    '/mid.html' => {
+        code => "200",
+        msg => "Ok",
+        headers => {
+            "Content-type" => "text/html",
+        },
+        content => $nofollow_mid,
+    },
+    '/end.html' => {
+        code => "200",
+        msg => "Ok",
+        headers => {
+            "Content-type" => "text/html",
+        },
+        content => $nofollow_end,
+    },
+    '/solo.html' => {
+        code => "200",
+        msg => "Ok",
+        headers => {
+            "Content-type" => "text/html",
+        },
+        content => $nofollow_solo,
+    },
+    '/bombshell.html' => {
+        code => "200",
+        msg => "Ok",
+        headers => {
+            "Content-type" => "text/html",
+        },
+        content => 'Hello',
+    },
+);
+
+my $cmdline = $WgetTest::WGETPATH . " -r -nd "
+    . join(' ',(map "http://localhost:{{port}}/$_.html",
+                qw(start mid end solo)));
+
+my $expected_error_code = 0;
+
+my %expected_downloaded_files = (
+    'start.html' => {
+        content => $nofollow_start,
+    },
+    'mid.html' => {
+        content => $nofollow_mid,
+    },
+    'end.html' => {
+        content => $nofollow_end,
+    },
+    'solo.html' => {
+        content => $nofollow_solo,
+    }
+);
+
+###############################################################################
+
+my $the_test = HTTPTest->new (name => "Test-meta-robots",
+                              input => \%urls, 
+                              cmdline => $cmdline, 
+                              errcode => $expected_error_code, 
+                              output => \%expected_downloaded_files);
+exit $the_test->run();
+
+# vim: et ts=4 sw=4
+
diff --git a/tests/run-px b/tests/run-px
index 5faccb48..b480f141 100755
--- a/tests/run-px
+++ b/tests/run-px
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ my @tests = (
     'Test-iri-disabled.px',
     'Test-iri-forced-remote.px',
     'Test-iri-list.px',
+    'Test-meta-robots.px',
     'Test-N-current.px',
     'Test-N-smaller.px',
     'Test-N-no-info.px',