Cloudflare Observatory Curly
recommended: allow
Operated by Cloudflare
monitoring
Synthetic network probes for HTTP timing measurements (TCP, TLS, TTFB). Measures connection timing for customer-owned URLs.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
curly-
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Cloudflare Observatory Curly:
Allow full access
User-agent: curly-
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: curly-
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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