Block requests from PetalBlock. Normally robots.txt is enough to stop
PetalBlock from making requests [1]. However, if SearXNG is offered below a
path (example.org/search), then the robots.txt is not available in the root
paths of the domain / subdomain.
[1] https://webmaster.petalsearch.com/site/petalbot
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Since [bb3a01f8] has been merged to the Farside project, Farside instances do no
longer need to send requests to SearXNG instances [1].
There are some old unmaintained Farside instances on the web that continue to
query SearXNG instances --> we can safely block their requests.
[1] https://github.com/benbusby/farside/issues/95
[bb3a01f8] https://github.com/benbusby/farside/commit/bb3a01f8
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
- requests without HTTP header 'Connection' or missing 'User-Agent' will be
blocked by the limiter
- re_bot is related to 'User-Agent' and has been renamed to block_user_agent
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
In debug mode more detailed logging is needed to evaluate if an access should
have been blocked by the limiter.
BTW: remove duplicate code checking bot signature ``re_bot.match(user_agent)``
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Only raise "suspicious Accept-Encoding" when both "gzip" and "deflate" are missing from Accept-Encoding.
Prevent Browsers which only implement one compression solution from being blocked by the limiter plugin.
Example Browser which is currently blocked: Lynx Browser (https://lynx.invisible-island.net)
can replace filtron:
* rate limite the number of request per IP and per (IP, User-Agent)
* block some bots
use Redis
data stored in Redis never contains the IP addresses, only HMAC using the secret_key
Co-authored-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
