Bot protection on RSS feed for git.netfilter.org

Bot protection on RSS feed for git.netfilter.org

[netfilter.btvdk]

Hi,

I have an RSS reader subscribed to https://git.netfilter.org/iptables/atom/?h=master

It does one call per week. It used to work, but now times out.

If I open that address on my browser, I am hit by "Protected by Anubis" page saying "Making sure you're not a bot!"

I'm no RSS expert, but aren't feeds meant to be read by feed readers (bots)? How could the feed work if it's behind bot protection? Is my client expected to solve whatever challenge Anubis is posing? Does that not defeat the purpose of the bot protection?

Thanks for your attention.

Re: Bot protection on RSS feed for git.netfilter.org

[Slavko]

Ahoj,

Dňa Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:51:05 +0000 netfilter.btvdk@simplelogin.com
napísal:

> I'm no RSS expert, but aren't feeds meant to be read by feed readers
> (bots)? How could the feed work if it's behind bot protection? Is my
> client expected to solve whatever challenge Anubis is posing? Does
> that not defeat the purpose of the bot protection?

curl works here:

curl -i 'https://git.netfilter.org/iptables/atom/?h=master'
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:08:39 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Expires: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:13:26 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:08:26 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
...

Are you sure, that you do not impersonate (fake) real browser? When i
set Firefox's User-Agent header, i hit anubis:

curl -iA "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0" ...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:11:53 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-store
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Set-Cookie: techaro.lol-anubis-auth=; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 20 Jul 2026
18:10:53 GMT; Max-Age=0; Secure; SameSite=None Set-Cookie:
techaro.lol-anubis-cookie-verification=019f80ba-316b-7dae-a172-50fdeecbc5ba;
Path=/; Expires=Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:41:53 GMT; Secure; SameSite=None
Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 4469

regards

-- 
Slavko
https://www.slavino.sk