gotosocial/internal/middleware/extraheaders.go
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[feature] Beef up our AI opt-outs (#3165)
* [chore] Synchronise our robots.txt with upstream

* [feature] Add headers to escape AI crawlers

This adds 2 headers that a number of AI crawlers respect to signal that
content should not be included in their datasets.
2024-08-02 18:22:39 +02:00

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// GoToSocial
// Copyright (C) GoToSocial Authors admin@gotosocial.org
// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
// along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
package middleware
import (
"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)
// ExtraHeaders returns a new gin middleware which adds various extra headers to the response.
func ExtraHeaders() gin.HandlerFunc {
return func(c *gin.Context) {
// Inform all callers which server implementation this is.
c.Header("Server", "gotosocial")
// Equivalent to CSP frame-ancestors for older browsers
c.Header("X-Frame-Options", "DENY")
// Don't do MIME type sniffing
c.Header("X-Content-Type-Options", "nosniff")
// Only send Referer header for URLs matching our protocol, hostname and port
c.Header("Referrer-Policy", "same-origin")
// Prevent google chrome cohort tracking. Originally this was referred
// to as FlocBlock. Floc was replaced by Topics in 2022 and the spec says
// that interest-cohort will also block Topics (as of 2022-Nov).
//
// See: https://smartframe.io/blog/google-topics-api-everything-you-need-to-know
//
// See: https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics
c.Header("Permissions-Policy", "browsing-topics=()")
// Some AI scrapers respect the following tags to opt-out
// of their crawling and datasets.
c.Header("X-Robots-Tag", "noimageai")
// c.Header calls .Set(), but we want to emit the header
// twice, not override it.
c.Writer.Header().Add("X-Robots-Tag", "noai")
}
}