i make games and music, sometimes.
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is there a standard HTTP status code for "go fuck yourself"? asking for a friend who needs to block bytedance's spider from their social media platform because it turns out it's incurring a stupid amount of bandwidth costs
if (req.http.user-agent ~ "(?i)(Bytespider|Bytedance)") {
error 403 "no thanks, i don't believe in any of that";
}But is that why this website does well in google results?
As long as we do good in the google results to make stuff easy to find for those that have not yet heard of "The Platform" that's all that matters. Especially for a small webcomic formatted to look the best on this very platform.
410 GONE or 421 MISDIRECTED are personal favorites. the first can sometimes get them to stop and the second just seems funny.
depending on if their retry logic is bad and just incurs more costs, tarpitting them is fun if the CDN can do it
I didn't think about it before, but I wonder if the spider got interested in cohost because apparently the Pikmon song blew up on tiktok
I love nginx's 444 which is a fake "response" that just drops the connection without returning anything. If you can do something similar I can say from experience that it makes bots fuck off pretty quickly
might I also suggest HTTP 418 I AM A TEAPOT for when your server is actually a teapot totally yeah
