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sunshineman1970
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Nov 12, 2021

bing site scan not working

when i try and use the bing site scan on my site in2town.co.uk it only reaches one page and comes up with the following error HTTP 400-499 errors   can anyone let me know how to solve this so i ca...
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idanins
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Jul 12, 2023

sunshineman1970 I have solved it by creating a WAF custom rule that skips the user agent

"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"

and the IP address that was getting blocked

 

you can also create WAF exceptions by Cloudflare's guide

https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/troubleshooting/blocked-bing-site-scans/

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farwa355
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Jul 30, 2024

idanins Same happened with my site https://dunebuggy-dubai.ae/

I tried asking everyone, from quora too. Did You find any solution?

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