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2 articles tagged “Cloudflare”.

12 Nov 2026 11 min read

Cloudflare WAF rules for AI crawlers: AI Crawl Control, verified bots and the operators' own IP lists

Cloudflare replaced its one-click Block AI bots switch with separate Search, Training and Agent controls in September 2026. Here is what those settings decide for you, what they don't, and how to add rules that verify AI crawlers against the operators' own IP lists.

AI crawlers
Cloudflare
Guides

12 Nov 2026 10 min read

Get the real visitor IP behind Cloudflare (Nginx, Apache, Node.js, Python, Workers)

Behind Cloudflare, every request comes from a Cloudflare edge address and the visitor's IP is in a header. Trusting that header is safe only when the request really came from Cloudflare. Here is how to restore the real IP correctly on every common stack.

Cloudflare
Security
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