Heffalump

Heffalump is an endless honeypot that gives malicious bots nightmares. To use, in your robots.txt tell robots not to go to a certain URL, which heffalump is reverse proxying. Any web agent that does go to the URL will receive an endless stream of random data, which will overflow its memory and/or storage if it doesn't have a max buffer size set or at the very least severely waste its time.

The source of the honeypot data is Once On a Time, one of A. A. Milne's most beloved and most public domain works.

Usage

Usage of heffalump:

heffalump [ []]

heffalump serves an endless HTTP honeypot

<network address> defaults to ":8080".

<path> defaults to "/". Paths ending in "/" will match all sub-pathes.