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Web Bot Auth


Web Bot Auth is an authentication method that leverages cryptographic signatures in HTTP messages to verify that a request comes from an automated bot. Web Bot Auth is used as a verification method for verified bots and signed agents.

HTTP Message Signature specification disallows non-ASCII characters, which will result in failure to validate your bot's requests. Cloudflare currently does not support bs or sf parameter designed to serialize non-ASCII values into ASCII equivalents. A short expires reduces the likelihood of replay attacks, and Cloudflare recommends choosing suitable short-lived intervals.Construct a over your chosen components.

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