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** [tickets:#6595] Prevent spiders from requesting tarballs**
**Status:** open
**Labels:** stability
**Created:** Thu Aug 22, 2013 03:43 PM UTC by Dave Brondsema
**Last Updated:** Thu Aug 22, 2013 03:43 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
The following are examples of spiders requesting tarball creation. This is
unnecessary and a waste of resources. We should make it not possible. We
already have `rel=nofollow` but that apparently isn't working. I think the best
solution is to require the URL to be a POST.
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"GET /p/z-i/code-0/208/tarball HTTP/1.0" 200 16400 "-" "Mozilla/5.0
(compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"
"GET /p/jhotdraw/svn/729/tarball HTTP/1.0" 200 17834 "-" "msnbot/0.01
(+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
"GET /p/fourpane/git4pane/ci/ec65df3a5ff2ec7be011c0722286e766c2b76d94/tarball
HTTP/1.0" 200 18137 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MJ12bot/v1.4.3;
http://www.majestic12.co.uk/bot.php?+)"
"GET
/u/lluct/me722-cm/ci/0aa649648a00979ad6ca9e9d61df4e44eb694259/tarball?path=/external/clang
HTTP/1.0" 200 17918 "-" "YisouSpider"
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