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Chaika

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ChaikaOP•1/29/24, 9:19 PM

I think you could get the worker via http.request.headers["cf-worker"][0]http.request.headers["cf-worker"][0], not sure if it would be set that point though hmm

Chaika

CChaika The convention of adding `x-` for custom headers is gone/deprecated and the fact...

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:20 PM

what's wrong with the uppercase?

Aren't they converted anyway? I see them as lowercase in my Worker logs

kian

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kian•1/29/24, 9:20 PM

HTTP/2 lowercases them

Chaika

CChaika I think you could get the worker via `http.request.headers["cf-worker"][0]`, not...

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:21 PM

doesn't seem to do anything

Chaika

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ChaikaOP•1/29/24, 9:21 PM

are you requesting it via a worker?

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:21 PM

oh

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:21 PM

no

Chaika

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ChaikaOP•1/29/24, 9:22 PM

I mean that would already be passed to your origin in the cf-worker header anyway if that's a request header rule

Chaika

CChaika The convention of adding `x-` for custom headers is gone/deprecated and the fact...

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:23 PM

I do the

x-

x-

so these headers stand out, and we don't use

x-

x-

in any of our applications (so this avoids ever having an accidental conflict of header names)

Chaika

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ChaikaOP•1/29/24, 9:23 PM

I think you have most of the useful stuff though, you could grab the edge client port for fun if you wanted too cf.edge.client_portcf.edge.client_port, something you can only get by passing it down.

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:23 PM

I'll make them lower case though, good point

Chaika

CChaika I think you have most of the useful stuff though, you could grab the edge client...

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:24 PM

good idea, added!

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dave•1/29/24, 9:24 PM

Chaika

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ChaikaOP•1/29/24, 9:24 PM

metal and colo id can be genuinely helpful at identifying cache stuff

Chaika

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ChaikaOP•1/29/24, 9:25 PM

well not really metal, but colo

Chaika

CChaika metal and colo id can be genuinely helpful at identifying cache stuff

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:25 PM

yeah, so for context this is for long term error logging

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:25 PM

since Azure support sucks

kian

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kian•1/29/24, 9:25 PM

cf.verified_bot_categorycf.verified_bot_category is cool too

Chaika

CChaika I think you have most of the useful stuff though, you could grab the edge client...

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:26 PM

weird, I got "x-client-port": "0","x-client-port": "0", on my first attempt

kian

Kkian `cf.verified_bot_category` is cool too

Hello, I’m Allie!

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Hello, I’m Allie!•1/29/24, 9:26 PM

Is there a verified_bot_nameverified_bot_name?

dave

Ddave weird, I got `"x-client-port": "0",` on my first attempt

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ChaikaOP•1/29/24, 9:26 PM

did you already have a connection established?

Hello, I’m Allie!

HHello, I’m Allie!Is there a `verified_bot_name`?

kian

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kian•1/29/24, 9:26 PM

nop

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:27 PM

https://gist.github.com/Manouchehri/bee48c7c931ec1ded12283fc94ae7e3e

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:27 PM

^ example of part of the stuff I'm logging

Chaika

CChaika did you already have a connection established?

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:28 PM

I opened one with curl

kian

Hello, I’m Allie!

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Hello, I’m Allie!•1/29/24, 9:28 PM

Darn

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Hello, I’m Allie!

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Hello, I’m Allie!•1/29/24, 9:29 PM

Do you have to have a dedicated UA, or just not spoof someone else's?

Hello, I’m Allie!

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Hello, I’m Allie!•1/29/24, 9:29 PM

Because I feel like I've seen some crawlers with pretty generic UAs

kian

Kkian `cf.verified_bot_category` is cool too

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:30 PM

yeah, already logging verifiedBotCategoryverifiedBotCategory since I do a json.stringify on the cfcf request object

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Hello, I’m Allie!•1/29/24, 9:30 PM

Yeah, so if you have IP verify + regex, then you may have two crawlers with similar/same UA, that are differentiated by their IPs, no?

kian

Kkian `cf.verified_bot_category` is cool too

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:31 PM

anything else?

Chaika

CChaika I think you could get the worker via `http.request.headers["cf-worker"][0]`, not...

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:32 PM

hang on, isn't this pointless since I already log the request headers in my Worker?

dave

Ddave hang on, isn't this pointless since I already log the request headers in my Work...

Chaika

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ChaikaOP•1/29/24, 9:33 PM

that's what I said lol workers-and-pages-discussions

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:33 PM

oh derp

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:33 PM

is there any situation where it could change or be helpful?

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:34 PM

I'll remove it for now

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dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:38 PM

easier to parse without concat'ing, as I'd be worried that that field might be missing.

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:39 PM

I think it's just parsing that I was worried about

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:40 PM

is there a way to pad http.request.timestamp.msec to include the the first two leading zeros?

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:41 PM

yeah

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:41 PM

I feel like I got annoyed when I thought of this last time lol

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:41 PM

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh

dave

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dave•1/29/24, 9:42 PM

I know we have some Workers that already use timestamp-msec-onlytimestamp-msec-only

Beyondo

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Beyondo•1/29/24, 10:01 PM

Google reCAPTCHA no longer provides 1 million free assessments.

Turnstile time.

Unsmart

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Unsmart•1/29/24, 10:04 PM

that is until u hit over 1m and recaptcha is cheaper LUL

LUL

is interesting though very large downgrade in the free

Beyondo

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Beyondo•1/29/24, 10:06 PM

Jokes on you, I'd never hit that! laugh_naruto

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Beyondo

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Beyondo•1/29/24, 10:06 PM

And yea, that was my only reason for using it))

Unsmart

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Unsmart•1/29/24, 10:08 PM

I guess actually if u use managed mode turnstile is unlimited free forgot they did that

Beyondo

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Beyondo•1/29/24, 10:09 PM

yeah, was just about to say that! i also remembered them being free & unlimited so I checked

Beyondo

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Beyondo•1/29/24, 10:09 PM

cloudflare is awesome