Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-devel <[email protected]> writes: > On 1/14/26 11:22, Bernhard Reiter via Gnupg-devel wrote: >> Am Mittwoch 14 Januar 2026 15:17:22 schrieb Jeffrey Walton via Gnupg-devel: >>> Related, some free and open source projects are using Anubis >>> <https://anubis.techaro.lol/> to keep most of the beggars off. The >>> Anubis source code is shared on GitHub. >> It needs javascript enabled in the browser, AFAIK. > > As I understand, there is now a no-JS option (it tests whether the > browser will follow a META redirect and present a cookie, which > (AFIAK) every version of Mozilla supported, even before JavaScript > existed). Anubis also only challenges clients that claim to be > "Mozilla" in the User-Agent string. All others (such as "wget") > simply pass.
The meta-refresh challenges aren't perfect. Sourceware had to use javascript challenges for ~2 weeks at the end of December into early January [1] [2]. At that time gnu.org was down a lot too, which is interesting. Christmas bots? Collin [1] https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/115731990044151990 [2] https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/115838999997172671 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-devel
