Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand (opens in new tab)
TIL: I'm using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Web Application Firewall > Custom rules > Managed Challenge" these days) to prevent crawlers from aggresively spidering my on this site, but I got fed up of even simple ?q=term searches triggering the challenge. After some mucking around with Claude Code it turns out you can register the following rule instead, so the CAPTCHA only kicks in for search URLs containing at least one ampersand: (http.request.uri.path wildcard r"/search/*" and ht...
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