A crawler name in your logs is a claim: 38% of requests naming a known bot from one Google Cloud network asked for .env files
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Every line in an access log has a user agent string, and anyone can send any string. I had been counting AI crawler visits to my own site from that string alone, so I checked where the requests actually came from. What I looked at The site is small: one Cloudflare Worker answering on two hostnames.…
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- 2026-09-26 18:00 · DEV Community — AI
A crawler name in your logs is a claim: 38% of requests naming a known bot from one Google Cloud network asked for .env files