It might get crawled, it will never return straight html so this is not an issue. Also add a note about adding this to your robots.txt file. Maybe even doing a check, like I do for the htaccess rules.

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Title: Return 404 if browser directly hits boost-stats.php » Return 403 if browser/crawler directly hits boost-stats.php
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Title: Return 403 if browser/crawler directly hits boost-stats.php » Return 404 if browser/crawler directly hits boost-stats.php
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404 is the correct answer

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Status: Needs review » Fixed

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.