Nothing of value is here.
A self-contained webserver which strives to be of as little use as possible, as a musing on the modern zombie internet, where any webserver sees a constant background noise of malicious traffic punctuated by aggressive scrapers.
Serves a single homepage of no great value, a /robots.txt forbidding all robotic crawls other than that homepage, and on all other possible URLs serves content of the least productive value possible, while keeping locally-consumed resources modest.
Not an infinitely-recursrive content tarpit (I wrote one of those too for spambots many years ago if you need one, and there are many more now aimed at poisoning abusive AIs); nothing the server offers encourages more requests, but it does aim to respond to every request in the least helpful way possible.
Notable valueless offerings include decompression bombs for common image codecs and transport encodings, exponentially self-expanding markup language documents, made-up credentials, and similar.
Usage:
go run main/main.go --listen=localhost:8080
Demo:
- Harmless homepage
- robots.txt
- llms.txt
- .git/config
- VSCode STFP config
- Atom .ftpconfig
- AWS Credentials
- Sendgrid Credentials
- Node .env
- PHP .ini
- phpinfo()
- Random path of no meaning
- Arbitrary JSON
- More-hostile requests you can make; your actual results will vary
depending on your browser's supported transport encodings:
- .zip
- .webp
- .png
- .jpeg
- .yaml
- wlwmanifest.xml