Cloudflare

This tag covers how Cloudflare's security features, including Bot Fight Mode, the Web Application Firewall, and rate limiting, can interact with RSS auto-posting tools that need to fetch a feed on a regular schedule. It explains why a feed that loads fine in a browser can still fail for an automated fetcher, since Cloudflare's bot heuristics often flag non-browser clients by default. Articles here walk through diagnosing whether Cloudflare is the cause of a fetch failure and how to add a scoped exception rule for a feed path without disabling site-wide protection. This is useful reading for site owners whose automation stopped working after a security setting changed, even if they didn't make the change themselves. It also covers the same troubleshooting pattern for other CDNs and web application firewalls that behave similarly.