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If the browser can do it what's stoping a headless browser bot from evaluating it all the same? Is it just to lower the attack surface?
by pennaMan 9y ago
If the browser can do it what's stoping a headless browser bot from evaluating it all the same? Is it just to lower the attack surface?
- poooogles 9y ago>If the browser can do it what's stoping a headless browser bot from evaluating it all the same? The vast majority of crawlers aren't that smart, headless browsers used to be painfully slow so no one used them.
- contravariant 9y agoEvaluating all javascript to see if it eventually writes an email address is not a good idea. In fact doing so probably violates the halting problem somehow.