Title: /?_wfsf=detectProxy
Last modified: September 6, 2019

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# /?_wfsf=detectProxy

 *  Resolved Anonymous User 14978628
 * (@anonymized-14978628)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_wfsfdetectproxy/)
 * Hi, I had the following request blocked by cloudflare. Can you please tell me
   if this is something i should whitelist or exclude? Thanks
 * Method
    POST
 * URI
    /?_wfsf=detectProxy
 * User agent
    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4) AppleWebKit/537.1 (
   KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.82 Safari/537.1
 * IP address
    69.46.36.20
 * ASN
    AS19528 NRIV – NetRiver INT LLC
 * Country
    United States
 * This ip has also been reported by other users here:
 * [https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/69.46.36.20](https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/69.46.36.20)

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 *  [wfdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfdave/)
 * (@wfdave)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_wfsfdetectproxy/#post-11905464)
 * Hi @martychc23,
 * This is a URL that Wordfence uses in order to verify `How does Wordfence get 
   IPs` within Wordfence -> All Options.
 * I would recommend whitelisting this URL within Cloudflare.
 * Dave
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628
 * (@anonymized-14978628)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_wfsfdetectproxy/#post-11907861)
 * Thanks for prompt response Dave.

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 * Last reply from: Anonymous User 14978628
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_wfsfdetectproxy/#post-11907861)
 * Status: resolved