Server-side Excludes (SSE)
Deprecated
If there is sensitive content on your website that you want visible to real visitors, but that you want to hide from suspicious visitors, wrap the content with Cloudflare Server-side Excludes (SSE) tags.
Set up
1. Turn on SSE
To turn on Server-side Excludes in the dashboard:
- Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard, and select your account and website.
- Go to Scrape Shield.
- For Server-side Excludes, switch the toggle to On.
To turn on Server-side Excludes with the API, send a
PATCH request with server_side_exclude as the setting name in the URI path, and the value parameter set to "on". 2. Exclude content
Once you have turned on Server-side Excludes, you need to wrap your content in specific SSE tags.
<!--sse--><!--/sse-->For example:
<!--sse-->Bad visitors cannot see my phone number, 555-555-5555<!--/sse--> Turn off SSE
To turn off Server-side Excludes in the dashboard:
- Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard, and select your account and website.
- Go to Scrape Shield.
- For Server-side Excludes, switch the toggle to Off.
To turn off Server-side Excludes with the API, send a
PATCH request with server_side_exclude as the setting name in the URI path, and the value parameter set to "off". Limitations
SSE only works with HTML.