Cloudflare Web Bot Auth: Cryptographic Authentication for Automated Bots
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Summary
Web Bot Auth is an authentication method that uses cryptographic signatures in HTTP messages to verify automated bot requests. It serves as a verification method for verified bots and signed agents, relying on two active IETF drafts for public key sharing and protocol definition. The documentation covers integration within Cloudflare's bot solutions, including key generation for authentication.
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Web Bot Auth is used as a verification method for verified bots and signed agents
It relies on two active IETF drafts: a directory draft allowing the crawler to share their public keys, and a protocol draft defining how these keys should be used
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