Does CF's Firewall/WAF only work on Proxied sites?

operations · February 28, 2020, 5:43pm

We configured managed and firewall rules in cloudflare on our sites and want to know if it only applies ot sites that are proxied.

Thank you!

sandro · February 28, 2020, 5:44pm

It does. Requests have to go through Cloudflare, in order to be evaluated by the different rule engines.

operations · February 28, 2020, 5:46pm

Great, thank you.

system · March 29, 2020, 5:43pm

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