Hi @susgeek,
Thank you for your proposal.
I think you mean using $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"], am I right?
What does CloudFlare IP Geolocation do?
Or do you mean Cloudflare API which doesn’t seem to support getting geolocation of visitors?
Anyway, I think if a visitor’s country code is available from the CloudFlare service, the site would already be protected by the CloudFlare WAF. So I’d like to have your opinion what’s the benefit to use this plugin. Do you think the CloudFlare service is not enough? If so, I can get motivated to implement your proposal.
Thanks.
Hi @susgeek,
The best way for this plugin is to make a class library that utilize the CloudFlare API in the same way as other APIs.
But I think that the CloudFlare API seems not to be able to get a country code for any IP address. It’s not suitable for this plugin.
So I decided to respectfully turn down your proposal.
Thanks so much.
Thread Starter
sus
(@susgeek)
Thank you for your reply.
Yes I was referring to having an option to use
$_SERVER[“HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY”];
On the sites that use Cloudflare I am still having attempts to access admin area of WordPress from countries that are not whitelisted.
Cloudflare has decreased attacking traffic, but not eliminated it.
Hi @susgeek,
Cloudflare has decreased attacking traffic, but not eliminated it.
OK. Thanks for this info.
Then I try to make a class library of CloudFlare that should be installed into the /wp-content/ip-geo-api/ directory. This would not work correctly on “Search” tab, but would reduce the load on server compared to looking up the Maxmind database.
Please keep watching this thread.
Thanks!
Dear @susgeek and all,
I made a API class library for CloudFlare and CloudFront. Please refer to “CloudFlare & CloudFront API class library“.
Best regards,
tokkonopapa
