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Send a zip bomb

• deleted 2y ago
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• jonatron 2y ago
  It didn't seem to matter what response I sent to PerplexityBot, the requests kept coming. I guess it's not surprising that a badly written bot isn't monitored either.
  • reginald78 2y ago
    Can you use hashcash or some proof of work system somehow? I don't know anything about this space.
    • jonatron 2y ago
      They were only requesting the HTML, not using a headless browser.
  • Dwedit 2y ago
    There was the tarpit that sends out markov-chain-generated random words, loading very slowly . If the client has a limited number of concurrent requests, that could theoretically choke the client.
  • JohnFen 2y ago
    > a badly written bot I think that it's fair to say that these bots aren't badly written. Their behavior is entirely intentional.