A small project is coming along just fine. A service to handle a specific path.
Basically a hidden (not displayed to the user) link on a website disallowed in robots.txt.
Visit the link and the connection is kept open till the crawler times out.
Crawler UA and IP are stored.
Second request from this combination 50ms before the timeout start streaming /dev/random or something similar.
I still need to test how links like this behave with screen readers etc bot to accidentally mess with someone.
Timo Zimmermann
npub1pn…lru22
2025-01-21 08:56:11 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1pncq5phzs5jl2llevajfh7um9z48tfysn47p7lvhlw2vavwgdsgsdlru22Published at
2025-01-21 08:56:11 UTCEvent JSON
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