diff --git a/src/robots.cpp b/src/robots.cpp
index 1c6c548..9e43524 100644
--- a/src/robots.cpp
+++ b/src/robots.cpp
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ namespace Rep
 
     Robots::Robots(const std::string& content): agents_(), sitemaps_(), default_(agents_["*"])
     {
-        std::string agent_name("");
+        std::string agent_name("*");
         std::istringstream input(content);
         if (content.compare(0, 3, "\xEF\xBB\xBF") == 0)
         {
@@ -103,30 +103,14 @@ namespace Rep
             }
             else if (key.compare("disallow") == 0)
             {
-                if (agent_name.empty())
-                {
-                    throw std::invalid_argument(
-                        "Need User-Agent before Disallow");
-                }
                 current->second.disallow(value);
             }
             else if (key.compare("allow") == 0)
             {
-                if (agent_name.empty())
-                {
-                    throw std::invalid_argument(
-                        "Need User-Agent before Allow");
-                }
                 current->second.allow(value);
             }
             else if (key.compare("crawl-delay") == 0)
             {
-                if (agent_name.empty())
-                {
-                    throw std::invalid_argument(
-                        "Need User-Agent before Crawl-Delay");
-                }
-
                 try
                 {
                     current->second.delay(std::stof(value));
diff --git a/test/test-robots.cpp b/test/test-robots.cpp
index ce9f58a..a356e76 100644
--- a/test/test-robots.cpp
+++ b/test/test-robots.cpp
@@ -2,22 +2,17 @@
 
 #include "robots.h"
 
-TEST(RobotsTest, DisallowFirst)
+TEST(RobotsTest, NoLeadingUserAgent)
 {
-    // Disallow must be preceeded by a User-Agent line
-    ASSERT_THROW(Rep::Robots("Disallow: /path"), std::invalid_argument);
-}
-
-TEST(RobotsTest, AllowFirst)
-{
-    // Allow must be preceeded by a User-Agent line
-    ASSERT_THROW(Rep::Robots("Allow: /path"), std::invalid_argument);
-}
-
-TEST(RobotsTest, CrawlDelayFirst)
-{
-    // Crawl-delay must be preceeded by a User-Agent line
-    ASSERT_THROW(Rep::Robots("Crawl-delay: 1"), std::invalid_argument);
+    // Assumed to be the default user agent
+    std::string content =
+        "Disallow: /path\n"
+        "Allow: /path/exception\n"
+        "Crawl-delay: 5.2\n";
+    Rep::Robots robot(content);
+    EXPECT_TRUE(robot.allowed("/path/exception", "agent"));
+    EXPECT_FALSE(robot.allowed("/path", "agent"));
+    EXPECT_NEAR(robot.agent("agent").delay(), 5.2, 0.000001);
 }
 
 TEST(RobotsTest, WellFormedCrawlDelay)