nuke/data/botPolicies.yaml
Xe Iaso ef52550e70
fix(config): remove trailing newlines in regexes (#373)
Closes #372

Fun YAML fact of the day:

What is the difference between how these two expressions are parsed?

```yaml
foo: >
  bar
```

```yaml
foo: >-
  bar
```

They are invisible in yaml, but when you evaluate them to JSON the
difference is obvious:

```json
{
  "foo": "bar\n"
}
```

```json
{
  "foo": "bar"
}
```

User-Agent strings, URL path values, and HTTP headers _do_ end in
newlines in HTTP/1.1 wire form, but that newline is usually stripped
before the server actually handles it. Also HTTP/2 is a thing and does
not terminate header values with newlines.

This change makes Anubis more aggressively detect mistaken uses of the
yaml `>` operator and nudges the user into using the yaml `>-` operator
which does not append the trailing newline.

I had honestly forgotten about this YAML behavior because it wasn't
relevant for so long. Oops! Glad I released a beta.

Whenever you get into this state, Anubis will throw a config parsing
error and then give you a message hinting at the folly of your ways.

```
config.Bot: regular expression ends with newline (try >- instead of > in yaml)
```

Big thanks to https://yaml-multiline.info, this helped me realize my
folly instantly.

@aiverson, this is official permission to say "told you so".

Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net>
2025-04-26 14:01:15 +00:00

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## Anubis has the ability to let you import snippets of configuration into the main
## configuration file. This allows you to break up your config into smaller parts
## that get logically assembled into one big file.
##
## Of note, a bot rule can either have inline bot configuration or import a
## bot config snippet. You cannot do both in a single bot rule.
##
## Import paths can either be prefixed with (data) to import from the common/shared
## rules in the data folder in the Anubis source tree or will point to absolute/relative
## paths in your filesystem. If you don't have access to the Anubis source tree, check
## /usr/share/docs/anubis/data or in the tarball you extracted Anubis from.
bots:
# Pathological bots to deny
- # This correlates to data/bots/ai-robots-txt.yaml in the source tree
import: (data)/bots/ai-robots-txt.yaml
- import: (data)/bots/cloudflare-workers.yaml
- import: (data)/bots/headless-browsers.yaml
- import: (data)/bots/us-ai-scraper.yaml
# Search engines to allow
- import: (data)/crawlers/googlebot.yaml
- import: (data)/crawlers/bingbot.yaml
- import: (data)/crawlers/duckduckbot.yaml
- import: (data)/crawlers/qwantbot.yaml
- import: (data)/crawlers/internet-archive.yaml
- import: (data)/crawlers/kagibot.yaml
- import: (data)/crawlers/marginalia.yaml
- import: (data)/crawlers/mojeekbot.yaml
# Allow common "keeping the internet working" routes (well-known, favicon, robots.txt)
- import: (data)/common/keep-internet-working.yaml
# # Punish any bot with "bot" in the user-agent string
# # This is known to have a high false-positive rate, use at your own risk
# - name: generic-bot-catchall
# user_agent_regex: (?i:bot|crawler)
# action: CHALLENGE
# challenge:
# difficulty: 16 # impossible
# report_as: 4 # lie to the operator
# algorithm: slow # intentionally waste CPU cycles and time
# Generic catchall rule
- name: generic-browser
user_agent_regex: >-
Mozilla|Opera
action: CHALLENGE
dnsbl: false