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How to Implement HTTP 402 Payments on a Website
HTTP 402 (Payment Required) isn’t new, but it’s getting real attention in 2026 for a different reason. It tells a site visitor there’s a cost to reach the resource. Not a permission issue. A payment issue. It’s direct: “Pay first.” Here’s the interesting part. Site owners can apply 402 to bots like AI crawlers…

How to Require ChatGPT to Pay for Crawling Website Content
ChatGPT forms answers from licensed sources, what people type in, and live web pages fetched through its browsing tools. It’s not just a big offline library. It reaches out in real time, pulls short excerpts, and uses them to complete a response, so a site’s content might end up feeding those answers without anyone…

How to require Claude to pay before crawling selected WordPress content
Claude AI often pulls content from public web pages to answer questions, which chips away at the value of gated posts. It usually sends an HTTP GET request to the page URL or uses a retrieval tool, then parses the returned HTML or text. If a paywall notice or a 402 Payment Required response…












