reCAPTCHA Challenge Despite Cloudflare and Bot Fight Mode Disabled

Website, Application, Performance Getting Started
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What is the name of the domain?

What is the error number?

Not Applicable

What is the error message?

ReCAPTCHA challenge persists despite Cloudflare and Bot Fight Mode disabled.

What is the issue you’re encountering

When accessing pages on https://thehellstarrecords.com/ via curl requests from Domain 2 (hosted on Hostinger), a reCAPTCHA page appears consistently.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Disabled Cloudflare temporarily for Hellstar Records.
Turned off Bot Fight Mode in Cloudflare settings.
Cleared browser cache and cookies.
Verified .htaccess rules on both sites.
Ensured DNS resolution and server configurations are correct on Hostinger.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Enable Cloudflare for Domain 1.
Enable Bot Fight Mode in Cloudflare settings.
Make a curl request from Domain 2 to Hellstar Records, e.g., curl https://Domain1.com/page.
Observe that a reCAPTCHA challenge is presented instead of expected content.

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Cloudflare has a lot of security features besides Bot Fight Mode. It could be Custom Rules, Managed Rules.

You can go to Security Events to see which rules/rulesets were triggered, as well as the details under Activity Log. After that, you can Configure a custom rule with the Skip action.

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Just to be perfectly clear, is this “reCAPTCHA”? That’s a Google mechanism. Cloudflare’s looks quite a bit different:

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