PrivateBin's XHR `POST /` (paste creation) was the trigger — Anubis's
catch-all CHALLENGE rule served an HTML challenge page where the JS
expected JSON, breaking paste creation entirely. Same shape will hit
any SPA XHR or CORS preflight on the other 8 Anubis-fronted sites
(homepage actions, kms upload-then-poll, wrongmove search refresh,
jsoncrack share, etc.) the moment it gets exercised.
Add an `ALLOW` rule keyed on `method != "GET"` between the AI/UA-block
imports and the catch-all CHALLENGE. Rationale:
* AI scrapers consume GET response bodies — they don't POST.
* State-mutating XHRs and OPTIONS preflight need to bypass the
challenge or the app breaks.
* CrowdSec + per-route rate-limit + app-level auth already cover
abuse on mutating methods, so this gives up nothing.
* Hard-deny rules for known-bad bots run first, so a declared bad
bot can't sneak through by sending a POST.
Also added a `checksum/policy` annotation on the Anubis pod template
sourced from `sha256(coalesce(var.policy_yaml, default_policy_yaml))`
so future policy changes auto-roll the deployment instead of needing
a manual `kubectl rollout restart`.
f1-stream had its own policy override (path carve-outs for SvelteKit
asset hashes and JSON data routes); mirrored the new rule there too.
Applied to all 8 Anubis-fronted stacks: blog, kms, f1-stream,
travel_blog, real-estate-crawler, homepage, cyberchef, jsoncrack.
Verified per stack: GET / returns the Anubis challenge page; POST,
PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS pass through to the backend (HTTP 301/405/502
from the upstream app, never the Anubis "not a bot" HTML).
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