Automattic / Automattic/jetpack

Photon: Limit to originating domain

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[Feature] Photon Enhancement
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Description

For popular posts, scrapers will often pick up the entire post, including referencing the original `img` tags. For Photon-enabled sites, this means the scrapers are effectively hotlinking from Photon.

Suggested: Disallow requests from non-originating domains or make an option to do so.

Originally requested in WP Core Slack via private message.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by locating the Photon request-handling entry point and trace how requests from domains other than the originating site are identified. Reproduce the scraper hotlinking scenario and define whether completion means blocking those requests or providing a configuration option; no specific files or tests are named in the issue.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php, wordpress
Domain
backend, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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