Why is Cloudflare WAF blocking my monitoring script?

Technical Q&A
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We have established a server we use for monitoring. It performs a lot of different checks on sites we caretake.

It was working and then all of a sudden we were getting nothing but 403s being returned by cloudflare. It seems very clear that the Cloudflare WAF is blocking us because it deemed us malicous and now we are are stuck. Has anyone had this experience? Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks,

Mike

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I was able to solve this, leaving it up for others. Shopify, apparently, needs to be able to set a cookie. Added a cookie file into the parameters of the curl requrest and now it’s working.