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Martin Iturbide:
Hello

I'm trying some available tools to try to slow down the bots spamming the site.
Please let me know any strange behavior that you may find on the site.

Regards

Andi B.:
Joulian installed on the hostap/wpa_supplicant site something called Anubis. No clue what it is or does though. But he said traffic load goes down by more than 99% cause all of these bots are now blocked before they load the server.

fusion:
anubis is a proxy that forces a web browser to do a tiny bit of "work" a scripted bot would generally be incapable of. if they succeed then the connection is passed along to the real web server.

it would be wise to confirm that the web browsers we do have on os/2 are capable of passing the checks  ;)

Dave Yeo:
Well I went to their website, https://anubis.techaro.lol/ and it claimed to be testing the soul of my browser and I seemed to have passed as after a second or two the page loaded. This is with No-Script so no JavaScript was run.
Edit: This is SeaMonkey. Turning JS on (only one domain) did make the site work better and it works fine on our browsers, at least at a quick look.

Andi B.:
That's the site I'm talking about https://w1.fi/ (most probably).

Sorry I wrote Jouni Malinen's name wrong above. He wrote about spam bots and Anubis in the news group. As I don't have any knowledge about bots and protection I can't say anything about different approaches or software.

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