The /explorer/ SPA endpoints were the source of all spider-trap traffic. A robots.txt Disallow is a better fix than serving 404s — it prevents crawlers from entering the infinite URL tree in the first place, avoids serving large numbers of 404s that hurt SEO, and doesn't break legitimate deep links. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Replace nginx spider-trap 404 guards with robots.txt disallowing /explorer/ to prevent crawler-induced infinite URL trees.