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evvtoday at 1:51 PM1 replyview on HN

Have you considered serving a zip bomb to this user agent?


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delectitoday at 1:53 PM

I'm sure their crawler can handle a zip bomb. Plus it might interpret that as "this site doesn't have a robots.txt" and start scraping that OP is trying to prevent with their current robots.txt.

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