This tweet highlights an issue with Cloudflare's 'Bot Fight Mode', a security feature designed to protect websites from malicious bots. The user faces a problem where legitimate webhooks are being blocked by this mode. Notably, the user cannot bypass this protection using custom WAF rules, nor can they skip the protection by URL, which indicates that these common bypass techniques are ineffective against this feature. The suggested options to mitigate this issue include allowing traffic based on IP addresses through Access Rules, turning off the Bot Fight Mode entirely, or upgrading to a paid Cloudflare plan which may offer more flexible or advanced management options. The key takeaway is that Cloudflare's Bot Fight Mode enforces a strict and somewhat inflexible layer of bot protection that may inadvertently block legitimate services, and current bypass methods via custom rules or URL-based skipping do not work in this scenario.
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