Mage2 Module Genaker BlockPaymentBot

How to test

send POSTrequest to {domain}/rest/default/V1/guest-carts/dgfjsdhfgsdhfgsdhfgsdhfgsdjfk/payment-information

With the same cart ID multiple times after, your request will be blocked for 5 minutes...

Now you can send GET request for the test with the parameter ?bot_test=1

https://domain.com/rest/default/V1/guest-carts/GKxNF6em8IzxaZlk78YR3soEYby/payment-information?bot_test=1

Also, you can set ENV variables to adjust the logic:

• $_ENV['MAGE_BOT_BLOCK_TIME'] Block bot for N Minutes, Default 2.
• $_ENV['MAGE_BOT_RECORD_TIME'] Time in minutes during which the counter will not be null. So if you have 60, then your counting limit for 1 hour. Default 2.
• $_ENV['MAGE_BOT_BLOCK_COUNT'] Request counter limit when user will be locked for MAGE_BOT_BLOCK_TIME minutes. Default 20

Adjust until bots gone.

ENV package

Also, there is a package to import ENV variables from the file -> https://github.com/Genaker/mage-dotenv

Why are we using ENV variables and not a Magento config?

Magento 2 is a slow legacy system; however, the new approach is to store configurations in the env variables. Enviremental config has gained significant popularity in PHP over recent years. It uses dotenv files, which are named after the de facto file name: .env. These plain text files define the environment variables required for an application to work as a list of key/value pairs. When using the Magento configuration, you need magento to be up and running. This extension doesn't load the entire magento but blocks bots immediately. If you will load magento bots will consume entire resources from your servers. Don't load Magento when you don't need it. Use PHP microservices!

I am lovers of the magento config. Config contains hundreds of thousands of records and even cached. It takes minutes to load every request from the cache (it still requires unzipping and unserializing). Magento config is an excellent example of how not to do it. With the bigger projects, merchants have more significant issues with magento.

You can adjust the rate and time.

``genaker/module-blockpaymentbot``

• Main Functionalities
• Installation
• Configuration
• Specifications
• Attributes

Main Functionalities

Installation

* = in production please use the --keep-generated option

Type 1: Zip file

• Unzip the zip file in app/code/Genaker
• Enable the module by running php bin/magento module:enable Genaker_BlockPaymentBot
• Apply database updates by running php bin/magento setup:upgrade*
• Flush the cache by running php bin/magento cache:flush

Type 2: Composer

• Make the module available in a composer repository for example:
  • private repository repo.magento.com
  • public repository packagist.org
  • public github repository as vcs
• Add the composer repository to the configuration by running composer config repositories.repo.magento.com composer https://repo.magento.com/
• Install the module composer by running composer require genaker/module-blockpaymentbot
• enable the module by running php bin/magento module:enable Genaker_BlockPaymentBot
• apply database updates by running php bin/magento setup:upgrade*
• Flush the cache by running php bin/magento cache:flush

Configuration

Using ENV varriables

Specifications

• Observer
• core_abstract_load_before > Genaker\BlockPaymentBot\Observer\Webapi\Core\AbstractLoadBefore

Requirements

This Module has a dependency on phpRedis. If your magento store is not running Redis, this module will have no effect on protecting your site. It won't break your site, but the protection will not be enabled.

Testing

To verify the module is working as expected, you can use curl on cli to test.

curl -i -X POST https://www.MYDOMAIN.com/rest/default/V1/guest-carts/GKxNF6em8IzxaZlk78YR3soEYby/payment-information

The expected outcome of the above is for the first 20 request you should get something like this:

{"message":"One or more input exceptions have occurred.","errors":[{"...

After the first 20 requests you should get:

Bye!