First, I want to explain that some sites trust on CloudFlare over Discourse to add extra layer of security. This layer provides some features like Email Ofuscation, and Anti-Bots challenges, that uses a virtual path like: JavaScript detection used by Cloudflare bot products (example.com/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/) Web analytics for a website proxied through Cloudflare (example.com/cdn-cgi/rum) Image resizing in the new URLs you would use for images (example.com/cdn-cgi/image/) Email address obfuscationOpen external link used to hide email addresses from malicious bots (example.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection) In CloudFlare documentations, recomed disallow that virtual path /cdn-cgi/ to avoid that crawlers, search engines, inspect that path. The main purpouse of this topic, is that I want to contribute on Discourse develop, adding a new PR, but first I should ask if this is a properly feature on Discourse. Thanks for all

Add to robots.txt some CloudFlare path to avoid crawlers inspect incorrectly

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 21, 2022, 2:02pm 2

Cloudflare’s speedups often break Discourse. I don’t think any of those things matter.

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