Index: src/java/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/Fetcher.java
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--- src/java/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/Fetcher.java	(revision 1425252)
+++ src/java/org/apache/nutch/fetcher/Fetcher.java	(working copy)
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@
                 continue;
               }
               if (rules.getCrawlDelay() > 0) {
-                if (rules.getCrawlDelay() > maxCrawlDelay) {
+                if (rules.getCrawlDelay() > maxCrawlDelay && maxCrawlDelay >= 0) {
                   // unblock
                   fetchQueues.finishFetchItem(fit, true);
                   LOG.debug("Crawl-Delay for " + fit.url + " too long (" + rules.getCrawlDelay() + "), skipping");
@@ -690,6 +690,9 @@
                 } else {
                   FetchItemQueue fiq = fetchQueues.getFetchItemQueue(fit.queueID);
                   fiq.crawlDelay = rules.getCrawlDelay();
+                  if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+                    LOG.info("Crawl delay for queue: " + fit.queueID + " is set to " + fiq.crawlDelay + " as per robots.txt. url: " + fit.url);
+                  }
                 }
               }
               ProtocolOutput output = protocol.getProtocolOutput(fit.url, fit.datum);