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I wonder if you could abuse gzip compression on responses to send a zip bomb back to them.
by amiga-workbench 4y ago
I wonder if you could abuse gzip compression on responses to send a zip bomb back to them.
- Avamander 4y agoYou can, but most bots do timeout. If you get a lot of bad bots that are vulnerable, then you'll probably waste a lot of resources on those connections.
- winddude 4y agoYes you can. There ar also ways to protect the crawler server from crashing.
- dawnerd 4y agoI did just that for a while with a spare server I had. I set it up to literally only respond to bad bots. I know the crawlers don't care but it amused me at least. I tried to also keep redirecting slowly before it could time out. There was one bot that seemed to create a new instance each redirect so I could keep it in a loop for essentially ever. Just about every other bot only followed a few redirects before giving up. Fun times.