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•Created by Pierre on 1/9/2025 in #general-help

Changing User-Agent bypasses bot protection?

It seems that just changing the user agent of a request is bypassing bot protection on my website. This is properly blocked:

while true; do curl  'https://api.merklemap.com/v1/certificates/google.com'; done

while true; do curl  'https://api.merklemap.com/v1/certificates/google.com'; done

This passes with a 100% success rate?

while true; do curl --user-agent 'ok'  'https://api.merklemap.com/v1/certificates/google.com'; done

while true; do curl --user-agent 'ok'  'https://api.merklemap.com/v1/certificates/google.com'; done

Am I missing something? Thanks.

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•Created by Pierre on 1/8/2025 in #general-help

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