Prevent expensive query.json queries#12466
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Blocks expensive /query.json requests which use LIKE-style matching on title/subtitle at the nginx layer to reduce costly traffic hitting the app/DB.
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- Add nginx request filtering rules intended to return
422for/query.jsonrequests containingtitle~/subtitle~patterns (including URL-encoded JSON forms).
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We've been seeing some LIKE query traffic to our /query.json endpoints, and these fields aren't meant to support that, so block it off.
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