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I don't understand how a crawler could change the language of the wiki without being authenticated.

• trampi 7y ago
  > After determining the source IP of the crawler (one of the admins was experimenting with Nutch as a supplement to the wiki's impoverished search capabilities and had authenticated the crawler using their admin credentials) Quoting the article.
  • lol768 7y ago
    Thanks, I missed this on first read! The lines are quite wide. Now wondering what the wiki software was that had implemented it as a GET (of course, opening up to CSRF too if there's no token param) and implemented poor search functionality.
• masklinn 7y ago
  Internal crawling to build a search index: > one of the admins was experimenting with Nutch as a supplement to the wiki's impoverished search capabilities and had authenticated the crawler using their admin credentials
• deleted 7y ago
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