Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20260115180713.83Dhz6c7@steffen%sdaoden.eu>: |Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-devel wrote in | <[email protected]>: ||On 1/14/26 11:22, Bernhard Reiter via Gnupg-devel wrote: ||> Am Mittwoch 14 Januar 2026 15:17:22 schrieb Jeffrey Walton via Gnupg-dev\ ||> \ ||> el: ||>> Related, some free and open source projects are using Anubis ||>> <https://anubis.techaro.lol/> to keep most of the beggars off. The ||>> Anubis source code is shared on GitHub. ||> It needs javascript enabled in the browser, AFAIK. || ||As I understand, there is now a no-JS option (it tests whether the ||browser will follow a META redirect and present a cookie, which (AFIAK) ||every version of Mozilla supported, even before JavaScript existed). ||Anubis also only challenges clients that claim to be "Mozilla" in the ||User-Agent string. All others (such as "wget") simply pass. | |That is utter nonsense.
Unfortunately, that is to say! For example the wonderful people behind .repo.or.cz just implemented a special user agent bypass so that packagers can download balls again; just last week, i have not updated the port again, so i have not tried it in practice. However the "--user-agent=lynx" "bypass" that worked for a month stopped working last week. So.. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-devel
