🪤 403 — you walked into the scraper trap
These are mirror repositories. They are tailnet-only.
This path used to serve the web UI for mirrors of public upstream
projects. It exists for supply-chain control, not for crawling. A
robots.txt politely disallowed /mirrors/.
A pack of AI scrapers ignored it, walked the infinite git-history URL
space, and ran up ~1.25 TB of egress and a real
money bill in a single month — while timing out the server for everyone
else.
So /mirrors/ is closed at the edge now. Roll of dishonour,
by share of the bytes they stole:
| Operator | User-Agent | Bytes |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | meta-externalagent | 66% |
| OpenAI | GPTBot | 16% |
| Amazon | Amazonbot | 3% |
| ByteDance | Bytespider | 1% |
If you are a human who actually wanted these mirrors, they are reachable
from the tailnet at forge.ops.eblu.me. If you are a crawler:
read the robots.txt next time. We left you a header, too.