Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode blocking my domain from Flipboard
I have a Medium publication that uses a custom domain name. It’s just a simple redirect. But the domain is hosted by Cloudflare. In the past I could easily share a story from Medium to Flipboard, and I still can from any of the native Medium publications. Just not from the custom one.
I was told by Flipboard that: “Couldflare recently made some changes that resulted in Flipboard being blocked in Cloudflare’s Bot Fight Mode. However, this has been fixed now. Please allowlist these two user agents: “Flipboard” and “FlipboardProxy” and these two proxy IP addresses: 23.23.178.171 and 23.23.178.169.”
I am a creative, not a tech person. I know nothing. But I did some research and figured out where WAF was under Security. I created a custom rule listing “Flipboard” and “FlipboardProxy” as user agents, and the two IP addresses: 23.23.178.171 and 23.23.178.169. I chose SKIP as the action.
Still blocked.
I see that “Flipboard” doesn’t appear to be the desired format for a user agent value. It appears to be something closer to “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (FlipboardProxy/0.0.5; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy)”
Tried that as well. Nothing.
I also tried going back to just “Flipboard” and “FlipboardProxy” and making the value CONTAINS.
I’m certain this is all stupid and I have one thing missing or wrong.
Please help.
I was told by Flipboard that: “Couldflare recently made some changes that resulted in Flipboard being blocked in Cloudflare’s Bot Fight Mode. However, this has been fixed now. Please allowlist these two user agents: “Flipboard” and “FlipboardProxy” and these two proxy IP addresses: 23.23.178.171 and 23.23.178.169.”
I am a creative, not a tech person. I know nothing. But I did some research and figured out where WAF was under Security. I created a custom rule listing “Flipboard” and “FlipboardProxy” as user agents, and the two IP addresses: 23.23.178.171 and 23.23.178.169. I chose SKIP as the action.
Still blocked.
I see that “Flipboard” doesn’t appear to be the desired format for a user agent value. It appears to be something closer to “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (FlipboardProxy/0.0.5; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy)”
Tried that as well. Nothing.
I also tried going back to just “Flipboard” and “FlipboardProxy” and making the value CONTAINS.
I’m certain this is all stupid and I have one thing missing or wrong.
Please help.
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