Add Client IP/CIDR's and country attributes to Route Selectors

Would like to be able to create routes (Simple, Redirect, and Direct) with additional selectors (client IP and country)for at least couple of use cases:

1. Disaster Recovery testing - presently, for small-scale tests, (active-active), testers test update their hosts files on their testing pc's to direct their traffic to their standby / DR load-balancer. This bypasses the WAF service and so doesn't provide a true test. Routing the testers by IP to their DR load-balancer would allow them to test their standby site whilst traversing the WAF service, providing a more accurate testing environment.

2. Preparing to roll out a new version of software, they have a test instance which uses a different FQDN and proxy. Being able to use their same production FQDN for their test instance during dev/test makes cutover later simpler.

3. Redirect clients using the "wrong" URL (e.g. internal users using external FQDN's instead of internal), or redirecting clients to a different origin server pool based on their country.

  • Rick Butland
  • May 11 2026
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