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Re:Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do a... by Mikealcl on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:39PM (#33957590)
You could do this without effecting normal traffic depending on uniqueness of ip doing the scraping.

Love the idea.

Re:Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do a... by swsieber on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:42PM (#33957621)
I think you missed the point - if people show up at $PROXY expect nice stuff but see junk, then they won't move over to $REAL and instead blame $REAL.

E.g. you'd like some way to redirect people from $PROXY site to $REAL site, and disgusting content on $PROXY won't do that - it'll reflect poorly on $REAL

Re:Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do a... by heelix on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:02PM (#33957868)
If you can identify the crawler - you can provide 'dynamic' content for that specific user context.
Re:Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do a... by nomel on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:27PM (#33958214)
It's a proxy, so there's no "crawler". It's just an agent relaying to the user. Passing something to this proxy agent just passes it directly to the user.