If you are randomly greeted with… …implies that the site owner implemented Rate Limiting that affects your visitor traffic. rate-limiting reason Cloudflare can rate-limit the the visitor traffic trying to counter a possible Dictionary attack. rate-limit thresholds In generic cases Cloudflare rate-limits the visitor when the visitor traffic crosses the rate-limit thresholds which is calculated … Read more
In case the Selenium driven ChromeDriver initiated google-chrome Browsing Context is getting redirected to the page… … this implies that a Cloudflare program is blocking your program from accessing the AUT (Application under Test). Analysis There can be several reasons behind Cloudflare blocking the access as follows: Cloudflare have idenified your program asa bot and … Read more
When you visit a site which is protected by cloudflare, it would contain a security check which you cannot bypass and on failing eventually your access is denied and you are redirected to the captcha challenge page due to the requests from low reputation IP addresses. IP Reputation is calculated based on Project Honeypot, external … Read more
Extra server variables that are available to cloud flare are: $_SERVER[“HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP”] real visitor ip address, this is what you want $_SERVER[“HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY”] country of visitor $_SERVER[“HTTP_CF_RAY”] $_SERVER[“HTTP_CF_VISITOR”] this can help you know if its http or https you can use it like this: if (isset($_SERVER[“HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP”])) { $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] = $_SERVER[“HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP”]; } If you do this, and the … Read more