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2026-11-02 (actor.json version unchanged: 1.0): private-address (SSRF) guard
On the Apify platform, every request (the PDF URL, each redirect hop, and robots.txt) is refused when the host
resolves to a private, loopback, link-local, carrier-grade NAT, reserved, multicast or unspecified address
(including IPv4-mapped IPv6), or when any of the host's addresses is one. Same rules as Bulk HTTP Request.
Such a URL is never charged (other error rows are still charged as before, see Pricing). With includeFailedUrls
on it gets a free row: error: "not fetched: private, loopback and link-local addresses are not allowed",
status: "error", message: "Not charged: this URL was not fetched (...)". With includeFailedUrls off it is
dropped; if no row is output at all, the dataset gets one free status row (recordType: "status",
message: "Not charged: N URL(s) were not fetched (...)"). It counts as failed in RUN_SUMMARY.
A host the guard cannot resolve fails as a DNS error, as before (still a charged error row, as before); only the
text now reads "DNS or connection error: DNS lookup failed for ".
A robots.txt that redirects to a private address counts as unavailable (no robots.txt rules).
Local runs (APIFY_IS_AT_HOME not set) are unchanged.
Files: my_actor/common.py (guard helpers, blocked_status_row; Http._robots_for checks the site first),
my_actor/main.py (hook on the httpx client, Blocked handled), tests/test_ssrf_guard_1102t.py (new),
README Limits (one line), this CHANGELOG (new).
