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lifehackerhansol

WAF on non-known bots trigger on a web browser GET request

While playing around with Cloudflare security rules for R2, I came across the
Known Bots
flag.

I've tested this in a few angles, and it appears that doing any action against
(not cf.client.bot)
seems to also trigger on Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

Some questions for that:
- Are plain ol' browsers also considered bots?
- If I am using a public bucket, do I have no choice but to let bots fly so that a standard web browser can do its job? (and sacrifice free R2 ops count for this?)
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