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If Hopbits checked your site
You found HopbitsProbe in your logs. Here is what it was, what it did, and how to make it stop.
What you saw
Hopbits is a measurement network. Its nodes check whether public services answer, and how quickly. A check is one of three things: a single GET or HEAD request, a TCP connection that is opened and closed, or a few pings.
How to recognise it
- The user agent
HopbitsProbe/1 (+https://hopbits.io/probe). - The request header
X-Hopbits-Probe. - Pings carry the same address in their payload.
What it does not do
- It sends no request body, no cookies and no credentials.
- It reports a redirect and does not follow it.
- It reads at most 10,000 bytes of a response and throws them away. Your content is not stored.
- One node waits 55 seconds between checks of the same site.
Ask not to be checked
Write to [email protected] with the domain or the addresses to leave out.
With a Hopbits account and API key you can also opt out immediately through the API: call `POST /v1/optout` and `POST /v1/optout/verify`, publish a DNS TXT or HTTP /.well-known/ proof on your domain, and Hopbits adds the entry directly to the network blocklist.