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by tubthumper8 958 days ago
> I think if you don't want to supply even that, a better way would be to just close the connection and don't send anything back at all.

I think this is the correct answer if a bad-mannered crawler has been identified. To take it a step further, one could do a HTTP version of a SSH Tarpit[1] although that's likely taking things too far.

[1] https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/