openstreetmap
Allow the `/dirty`/`/status` URLs to be disabled (& disable them by default)
Currently mod_tile always allows the /dirty & /status URLs for all tiles. In all servers I set up, I block that with an apache rewrite rule. I suggest improving mod_tile by:
(i) The user should be able to turn this option on or off in the apache config (this should be uncontroversial, since it just add 2 On/Off settings (e.g. ModTileDirtyUrl Off)
(ii) I think both settings should be Off by default.
I'm possibly able to work on code for this. Does anyone have any issues with my suggestion?
Sounds like a good improvement to me to make this setting explicit as suggested by you.
It seems that the controlable option has been implemented since last week as I cannot dirty tiles anymore (example https://tile.openstreetmap.org/10/323/318.png/dirty) where I receive a bad request message with Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist..
Does dirty of tiles under zoom 12 si adding excessive requests ? Are they other ways for an OSM contributor to dirty tiles ?
No, the PR is still unmerged.
Dirty was disabled on the CDN because it doesn't do what people expect, but that's unrelated to mod_tile as it's deployment specific.
