Allow traffic from search engine bots
This example challenges requests from a list of countries, but allows traffic from search engine bots — such as Googlebot and Bingbot — and from other verified bots.
The rule expression uses the cf.client.bot field to determine if the request originated from a known good bot or crawler.
- Expression:
(ip.src.country in {"US" "MX"} and not cf.client.bot) - Action: Managed Challenge
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