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Re: Go-http-client

From Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
Subject Re: Go-http-client
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.networking
Date 2024-02-23 11:56 +0000
Message-ID <5b372e7c90News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> (permalink)
References <5b2b4df63fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <5b369f6248News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <5b37253c5anews*@Torrens.org>
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In article <5b37253c5anews*@Torrens.org>,
   Richard Torrens (News) <News+19772@Torrens.org> wrote:
> In article <5b369f6248News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
>    Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> > The trickle continued, some days far outnumbering other requests.

> > But I have found a way to stop them! I added to my ./htaccess
> > file...

> > RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "=Go-http-client/1.1"
> > RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

> > ... now returns 403 Forbidden. Stopped 260 in 12 hours yesterday.
> > This certainly works on PlusNet - may or may not on other ISPs.

> https://user-agents.net/string/go-http-client-1-1
> gives info on this. But these requests may not be evil. I would
> guess mostly neutral.

Of  1209 requests yesterday, 1117 were this user-agent -  over 96%.

They were from a wide variety of IP addresses, with anything from 2 to
30 requests each, to a similar subset of pages. 

None of them looked at robots/txt, so I would say that in my
experience, they were all spurious, probably malicious.

> There are so many bots and crawlers these days log files are of
> little practical use!

I have rarely looked at mine for ages ... until there was massive
increase in their daily sizes!

Anyway, they all get Forbidden from me now!

Martin

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Martin Avison 
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Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 10:25 +0000
  Re: Go-http-client Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 11:47 +0000
    Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 12:27 +0000
      Re: Go-http-client Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 12:59 +0000
        Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 13:11 +0000
  Re: Go-http-client Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-01-31 15:18 +0000
    Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 16:56 +0000
      Re: Go-http-client Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-01-31 18:32 +0000
  Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-02-22 09:53 +0000
    Re: Go-http-client "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+19772@Torrens.org> - 2024-02-23 10:15 +0000
      Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-02-23 11:56 +0000

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