The example/default bot policy document had a rule to allow RSS readers
through based on paths that end with ".rss", ".xml", ".atom", or
".json". Frameworks like Rails will treat these specially, meaning that
going to /things/12345-whateverhaha.json could bypass Anubis.
I checked the history of this rule and it was present in the original
example policy file in Xe/x. This rule is likely a mistake and it has
been removed. I think it was for making my blog still work with RSS
readers.
Thanks to Graham Sutherland for reporting this over email.
Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net>
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