Post #2676131
2026-04-23 16:59 UTC
@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net The server is managed with cPanel which provides a surprising amount of options, including IP blocking; and .htaccess files give me some good control over Apache. So I can certainly handle *known* bad actors.
It does look like I need to pick a threshold of behaviour that will result in a 404 or some other dead end. I can imagine a human legitimately filtering on 2-3 tags, but more than that (as well as invalid combos) could be denied.
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net 2026-04-23 17:07
@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art i was more suggesting that your site code needs to start 404ing for tags that should not return results e.g. putting in the year 2030 should not generate results, yet it does. https://bigraccoon.ca/gallery?tag=Year%3A%2030 you can put anything you want after tag=, and it will generate results this is effectively feeding scrapers unlimited valid URLs every time.