README: blocks misbehaving scrapers, not normal ones (closes #387)
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The opening now lists what bans a client with the default settings: the rate and byte limits, a probe for a secret path, a security scanner's user agent, and the refusal limit. A scraper that does none of these is left alone. Model: opus-5-5
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`smallwebwaf` is an MIT-licensed web application firewall, written in Go by
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[@sneak](https://sneak.berlin), for self-hosted web apps. It refuses the
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requests of scrapers, scanners and other abusers before they reach an app.
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requests of misbehaving scrapers, scanners and other abusers before they reach
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an app.
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With the default settings, a client is banned when it does any of these:
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- makes more than 120 requests in a minute, 1500 in an hour or 6000 in a day;
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- moves more than `50G` of request and response bodies in an hour, or `100G` in
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a day;
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- asks for a secret or backup file, such as `/.env` or `/.git/config`;
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- sends a user agent that names a security scanner, such as `sqlmap` or `nikto`;
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- has more than 30 requests in a minute refused as probes or attacks.
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A scraper that does none of these is left alone. A scraper that waits 15 seconds
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between requests stays under the rate limits.
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## What it does
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