Re: Bot protection on RSS feed for git.netfilter.org

Ahoj,

Dňa Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:51:05 +0000 [email protected]
napísal:

> I'm no RSS expert, but aren't feeds meant to be read by feed readers
> (bots)? How could the feed work if it's behind bot protection? Is my
> client expected to solve whatever challenge Anubis is posing? Does
> that not defeat the purpose of the bot protection?

curl works here:

curl -i 'https://git.netfilter.org/iptables/atom/?h=master'
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:08:39 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Expires: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:13:26 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:08:26 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
...

Are you sure, that you do not impersonate (fake) real browser? When i
set Firefox's User-Agent header, i hit anubis:

curl -iA "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0" ...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:11:53 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-store
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Set-Cookie: techaro.lol-anubis-auth=; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 20 Jul 2026
18:10:53 GMT; Max-Age=0; Secure; SameSite=None Set-Cookie:
techaro.lol-anubis-cookie-verification=019f80ba-316b-7dae-a172-50fdeecbc5ba;
Path=/; Expires=Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:41:53 GMT; Secure; SameSite=None
Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 4469

regards

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