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I am trying to pull data from a server using CURL. The website I am pulling from is obviously behind Cloudflare. Even though I am sending the exact same request (including same http headers), I still get error 429 returned from Cloudflare.

I know that normally 429 is returned when you hit some rate limit, like too many requests, specific user-agents etc. But in this case, it gets triggered even if it's the very first request from a completely new IP and computer and with the exact same RAW request.

The owner of the website must have put some special rate limit to 0 request for some unknown meta data, I just can't figure out what.

If the request from my browser and from curl looks exactly the same, what other things can Cloudflare trigger on? TLS versions?

Daniele Testa
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