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fix: open /privacy and /terms to crawlers on both hosts #427

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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion src/paywall.ts
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Expand Up @@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ export function createCrawlGate(
payTo,
secret: `${apiKey}:crawl`,
contact: "mailto:anthony@profullstack.com",
openPaths: ["/api/health", "/llms.txt", "/.well-known/"],
// /privacy and /terms (both hosts, legal.ts): a connector directory's review crawler must read them.
openPaths: ["/api/health", "/llms.txt", "/.well-known/", "/privacy", "/terms"],
exempt,
});
}
12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions test/paywall.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -174,6 +174,18 @@ test("the crawl door sells the day pass on /crawl", async () => {
assert.equal(body.accepts[0]?.amount, "1000000");
});

test("the crawl door leaves the legal pages open to crawlers on both hosts", async () => {
const gate = createCrawlGate(CRAWL_ENV)!;
const CLAUDEBOT = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)";
for (const host of ["nixamp.com", "backtoschool.help"]) {
for (const path of ["/privacy", "/terms"]) {
for (const ua of [GPTBOT, CLAUDEBOT]) {
assert.equal(await gate.handle(new Request(`http://${host}${path}`, { headers: { "user-agent": ua } })), null, `${host}${path} ${ua}`);
}
}
}
});

test("the crawl door lets a browser and a signed-in session through", async () => {
const gate = createCrawlGate(CRAWL_ENV, (r) => (r.headers.get("cookie") ?? "").includes("nixamp_session="))!;
const chrome = { "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36", "sec-fetch-mode": "navigate", "sec-fetch-site": "none", "sec-fetch-dest": "document" };
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