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Re:Show HN: “HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up” for bots by t0mas88 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:52AM (#29010897)
You could but it's extra work to build that into the application while you could use a generic off the shelf WAF / IDS type solution that just blocks them. Won't fully stop a targeted manual attack but it is enough to make bots move on to their next target. And it slows down any manual reconnaissance work.
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Re:Show HN: “HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up” for bots by saurik on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:03PM (#29032628)
Blocking someone is still more generic than returning a specific HTTP response code specifically designed to inform the other party of your suspicion.
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