Rules language
The Cloudflare Rules language is a flexible and intuitive specification for building rule expressions. Based on the widely known Wireshark display filters ↗, the Rules language allows you to precisely target HTTP requests with a syntax and semantics familiar to security engineers.
Refer to the following pages for more information about the available language elements:
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