PulseAugur
EN
LIVE 02:07:07

Cloudflare CAPTCHA rule adjusted to allow simpler searches

Simon Willison encountered Cloudflare's "Managed Challenge" CAPTCHA system, which was overly aggressive in blocking legitimate search engine traffic. By using Claude Code, he devised a more nuanced rule that only triggers the CAPTCHA for search queries containing an ampersand, thereby allowing simpler searches to proceed without interruption. This adjustment was made to prevent aggressive crawling of his faceted search engine. AI

IMPACT Fine-tuning of security rules can improve user experience and reduce false positives for AI-driven security systems.

RANK_REASON The item describes a user-level configuration adjustment for a web application firewall, not a new product release or significant industry event.

Read on Simon Willison →

AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 1 sources. How we write summaries →

COVERAGE [1]

  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand

    <p><strong>TIL:</strong> <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/captcha-on-at-least-one-ampersand">Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand</a></p> <p>I'm using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Web Application Firewall &gt; Custom rules &gt; Managed Challenge"…