Moving thread to: [email protected] Please remove fpc-pascal and post replies to fpc-other only.
Marc Weustink wrote: > Yes. Last week bots made the forum unusable. Since they (till now) don't > use cookies, I redirect all requests without cookies to the use cookies > page. When you try this 5 times within 10 minutes, your IP is blocked > for one hour. Mitigation is needed, but should it block or hinder users, visitors, and non-abusive web crawlers (legitimate search indexers and LLMs data gathering)? A CDN / reverse web proxy is a common solution for scaling performance and blocking abuse and DoS attacks. For example: https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/cdn/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/expanding-our-support-for-oss-projects-with-project-alexandria/ https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/project-alexandria/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
