Bot Defense Testing

Test Using cURL

1. Open a terminal emulator in Client node, and create HTTP request

   $ curl -I http://app.arcadia.com
   

2. You can see request is PASSED with ALERT

   

Test with cURL acting as ApacheBench

Now we set user agent identity as ApacheBench

1. Create the request and set the User-Agent to “ApacheBench/2”

   $ curl -A "ApacheBench/2" http://app.arcadia.com
   

2. You can see request is blocked and REJECTED and client classified as Malicious Bot

   

Using Firefox as GoogleBot

Now we try to use Firefox with modified user-agent.

1. Set Firefox to pretend to be GoogleBot using User-Agent Switcher add-on

   

   Then click the Apply (container) button.

2. Create request to the Arcadia Apps http://app.arcadia.com

3. You can see the request is blocked and REJECTED and classified as Malicious Bot. You also can see bot_anomalies as Search Engine Verification Failed.