Because we can’t have nice things on the
web, here is a stupid
trick to kill some bots. First, create a hefty 10TB (g)zip bomb with `dd
if=/dev/zero bs=10M count=1G | gzip -9 > /etc/caddy/10T.gzip`. Don’t worry, this
doesn’t take disk space nor ram, only a bit of CPU and some time. Then, put
the following snippet in your Caddy configuration:
“`
handle /trap { file_server try_files /etc/caddy/10T.gzip header Content-Encoding gzip header Content-Type text/html }
“`
Hilarious side-note: if you don’t put the `file_server` directive, things won’t
work properly and you’ll waste a lot of time trying to figure out why.
Anyway, check that things are _working_ with `curl –compressed
https://dustri.org/trap –output /dev/null`, and if it’s the case,
put a `Disallow: /trap` line in your
`robots.txt` file,
and add a `anti-ai trap` somewhere on your
webpages.
Congratulations on making the web a better place.