Addendum (forgotten)

The purpose of developing this header audit tool was to answer the question:

"How do you explain the difference between an HTML header and an HTTP header to bored students who would rather watch YouTube videos (or worse) or prepare a salad at their desks during mandatory lectures?"

The answer was to get them involved. Since all students have internet access, everyone can examine a page of their choice, followed by a discussion of the results.

The audit tool is part of a more comprehensive, non-commercial framework called ScrapTrap ( https://www.scraptrap.de ), which was designed according to social informatics principles and primarily serves in practice for bot defense and anti-scraping, but is also conceived as a teaching and research tool.

It also serves to illustrate attacks and their defense (some examples can be found at the bottom of the aforementioned page).

Special care was taken to avoid creating dependencies on:

- Cloud services - Cookies & sessions - JS frameworks

Seriously? Over 1,000 hits from over 250 different bots via this link. But zero hits from real people—not even out of pure curiosity, by mistake, or simply to criticize.

No wonder some people think the internet is dead.