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My Ruby on Rails blog application is getting a lot of comment spam for a particular blog post even though comments are closed and the comment form is no longer there. The comments are filtered by Akismet so they’re not visible, but I’m not sure how my app should best respond to these requests.
I thought about simply redirecting to the post page, or responding with an HTTP 404 or perhaps a 422. What do you think is the best course of action?
If your only goal is to thwart attempted spammers, any error result code would be fine. The spammer software isn’t going to even look at it anyway.