Anti-Bot Systems Return Identical, Undiagnosable Errors for Different Root Causes
A developer automating form submission on a government portal behind Akamai Bot Manager and Cloudflare Turnstile finds that legitimate automated requests are silently killed with a generic HTTP/2 protocol error indistinguishable from three unrelated causes: an unvalidated bot-detection session, a burned IP, or a rejected TLS/browser fingerprint. Each cause requires an opposite fix, but current tooling provides no way to tell them apart, since manual submission from the same environment succeeds.
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