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Raed66704/01/20253 repliesview on HN

I doubt the system is that simple. No one wrote a rule saying `if url.contains("camel") then block()` it's probably an unintended side-effect


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keithwhor04/01/2025

If this is a bet, I'll happily take the other side and give you 4:1 on it.

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ycombinatrix04/01/2025

Akamai has been doing precisely that for years & years...

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isbvhodnvemrwvn04/02/2025

Judging by previous outages it was probably a poorly tested overcomplicated regex which matched to much.