Detect Verified Bots
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Gonna make a thread so there isn't 2 support chats at once
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Awesome.
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By Verified Bots we mean known good bots.
Bots that won't harm your site, or spam etc.
That can be search engines or other bots like the Instagram bot.
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You want this to always fire
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so edit expression
and just set it to true
then add a header
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No, true means always fire
True means it will always fire.
For every request.
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The header
X-Is-Bot will be true for known bots and false for everything elseUnknown User•3y ago
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yes
Yes, that sets a "dynamic" header which means it'll be based on the cf.client.bot score.
Which Cloudflare gives you to tell you if it's a known bot.
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So basically it goes
request comes in -> Cloudflare tells you if it's a bot using
cf.client.bot -> then your rule fires which causes it to add a "dynamic" header which is the same as the cf.client.bot -> and then your origin can read that header.Unknown User•3y ago
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Yes.
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And then your rule makes Cloudflare assign the X-Is-Bot header the same value of the boolean
cf.client.botUnknown User•3y ago
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Try without the brackets? I'm not sure, I haven't used the rule syntax much.
Remove the brackets
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