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by trampi 2555 days ago
> After determining the source IP of the crawler (one of the admins was experimenting with Nutch as a supplement to the wiki's impoverished search capabilities and had authenticated the crawler using their admin credentials)

Quoting the article.

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Thanks, I missed this on first read! The lines are quite wide.

Now wondering what the wiki software was that had implemented it as a GET (of course, opening up to CSRF too if there's no token param) and implemented poor search functionality.