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jackalope
on July 16, 2012
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The long and sordid history of the user-agent HTTP...
I block anything that looks like penetration testing or content scraping if there's no chance of false positives. Even when there's no vulnerability present, it conserves resources on dynamically generated sites.
dredmorbius
on July 16, 2012
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Why I can appreciate that, why not block based on
patterns of use
rather than headers?
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