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t0mas88 on Oct 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: “HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up” for bo...

You could but it's extra work to build that into the application while you could use a generic off the shelf WAF / IDS type solution that just blocks them. Won't fully stop a targeted manual attack but it is enough to make bots move on to their next target. And it slows down any manual reconnaissance work.

saurik on Oct 28, 2021 [–]

Blocking someone is still more generic than returning a specific HTTP response code specifically designed to inform the other party of your suspicion.

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