429 errors when site connects to itself, even when IP skipped with WAF custom rule

What is the name of the domain?

com

What is the issue you’re encountering

A domain of mine started triggering 429 “too many requests” errors for requests to itself (e.g. CURL), causing problems with things like Wordpress cron. I added a WAF custom rule for the server IP to skip everything (including rate limiting, which I never enabled). After doing that I get lots of events that trigger the rule that confirm that the action taken was ‘skip’, but from the request side I’m still getting blocked with the 429 errors.

Hello,

A domain of mine started triggering 429 “too many requests”

Could you kindly verify your domain for us to further look into this issue ?

Besides, error 429 indicates client has sent too many requests in the specified amount of time according to the server.

The global rate limit for the Cloudflare API is 1200 requests per five minutes per user, and applies cumulatively regardless of whether the request is made via the dashboard, API key, or API token.

As for the resolution, kindly review this document ; 4xx Client Error | Cloudflare Support docs

Thank you !

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