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A comment on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?.

Re:Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a por... by karel-3d on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:35AM (#44960280)
It's coming from a F5 script, which is a company that sells anti-bot protection amid other things. (It's coming from obfuscated script at /TSPD, which is a F5 thing.)

https://www.f5.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a por... by karel-3d on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:46AM (#44960343)
TS seems to be short for TrafficShield (a product of some company F5 acquired in early 2000s) and PD seems to be Proactive Defense (?)
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Re:Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a por... by jpeggtulsa on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @11:15PM (#44968703)
Isn't F5 the company that makes nginx?
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Re:Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a por... by karel-3d on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:00AM (#44973626)
I didn't know that! But apparently yes
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Re:Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a por... by wlonkly on Friday August 22, 2025 @10:34AM (#44985183)
That bought nginx, but yes!
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