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title: Get a detected connection
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# Get a detected connection

GET/zones/{zone\_id}/page\_shield/connections/{connection\_id}

Returns a webpage connection detected on the zone by connection ID.

##### Security

<details>

<summary>API Token</summary>



The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/api/get-started/create-token/">Create a token</a>.

**Example:**<code>Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY</code>

</details>

<details>

<summary>API Email + API Key</summary>



The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

**Example:**<code>X-Auth-Email: user@example.com</code>

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

**Example:**<code>X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194</code>

</details>

##### Accepted Permissions (at least one required)

`Page Shield``Domain Page Shield Read``Domain Page Shield``Page Shield Read``Zone Settings Write``Zone Settings Read`

##### P ath ParametersExpand Collapse

zone\_id: string

Identifier

maxLength32

[Link to this property](<#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(params)%20default%20%3E%20(param)%20zone_id%20%3E%20(schema)>)

connection\_id: string

Identifier

maxLength32

[Link to this property](<#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(params)%20default%20%3E%20(param)%20connection_id%20%3E%20(schema)>)

##### ReturnsExpand Collapse

<details>

<summary>

result: object {id, added\_at, first\_seen\_at, 10 more }

</summary>

id: string

Identifier

maxLength32

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20id">Link to this property</a>

added\_at: string

formatdate-time

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20added_at">Link to this property</a>

first\_seen\_at: string

formatdate-time

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20first_seen_at">Link to this property</a>

host: string

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20host">Link to this property</a>

last\_seen\_at: string

formatdate-time

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20last_seen_at">Link to this property</a>

url: string

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20url">Link to this property</a>

url\_contains\_cdn\_cgi\_path: boolean

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20url_contains_cdn_cgi_path">Link to this property</a>

domain\_reported\_malicious: optional boolean

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20domain_reported_malicious">Link to this property</a>

first\_page\_url: optional string

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20first_page_url">Link to this property</a>

malicious\_domain\_categories: optional array of string

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20malicious_domain_categories">Link to this property</a>

malicious\_url\_categories: optional array of string

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20malicious_url_categories">Link to this property</a>

page\_urls: optional array of string

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20page_urls">Link to this property</a>

url\_reported\_malicious: optional boolean

<a href="#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result%20%2B%20(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(model)%20connection_get_response%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20url_reported_malicious">Link to this property</a>

</details>

[Link to this property](<#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20result>)

success: true

Whether the API call was successful

[Link to this property](<#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20success>)

<details>

<summary>

errors: optional array of <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/$shared#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)">ResponseInfo</a> { code, message, documentation\_url, source }

</summary>

code: number

minimum1000

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20code">Link to this property</a>

message: string

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20message">Link to this property</a>

documentation\_url: optional string

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20documentation_url">Link to this property</a>

<details>

<summary>

source: optional object {pointer }

</summary>

pointer: optional string

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20source%20%3E%20(property)%20pointer">Link to this property</a>

</details>

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20source">Link to this property</a>

</details>

[Link to this property](<#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20errors>)

<details>

<summary>

messages: optional array of <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/$shared#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)">ResponseInfo</a> { code, message, documentation\_url, source }

</summary>

code: number

minimum1000

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20code">Link to this property</a>

message: string

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20message">Link to this property</a>

documentation\_url: optional string

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20documentation_url">Link to this property</a>

<details>

<summary>

source: optional object {pointer }

</summary>

pointer: optional string

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20source%20%3E%20(property)%20pointer">Link to this property</a>

</details>

<a href="#(resource)%20%24shared%20%3E%20(model)%20response_info%20%3E%20(schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20source">Link to this property</a>

</details>

[Link to this property](<#(resource)%20page_shield.connections%20%3E%20(method)%20get%20%3E%20(network%20schema)%20%3E%20(property)%20messages>)

### Get a detected connection

HTTP

HTTPTypeScriptPythonGoTerraform

```
curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/page_shield/connections/$CONNECTION_ID \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"
```

200 example

```
{
  "result": {
    "id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
    "added_at": "2021-08-18T10:51:10.09615Z",
    "first_seen_at": "2021-08-18T10:51:08Z",
    "host": "blog.cloudflare.com",
    "last_seen_at": "2021-09-02T09:57:54Z",
    "url": "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.6.0/js/bootstrap.min.js",
    "url_contains_cdn_cgi_path": false,
    "domain_reported_malicious": false,
    "first_page_url": "blog.cloudflare.com/page",
    "malicious_domain_categories": [
      "Malware"
    ],
    "malicious_url_categories": [
      "Malware"
    ],
    "page_urls": [
      "blog.cloudflare.com/page1",
      "blog.cloudflare.com/page2"
    ],
    "url_reported_malicious": false
  },
  "success": true,
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

##### Returns Examples

200 example

```
{
  "result": {
    "id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
    "added_at": "2021-08-18T10:51:10.09615Z",
    "first_seen_at": "2021-08-18T10:51:08Z",
    "host": "blog.cloudflare.com",
    "last_seen_at": "2021-09-02T09:57:54Z",
    "url": "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.6.0/js/bootstrap.min.js",
    "url_contains_cdn_cgi_path": false,
    "domain_reported_malicious": false,
    "first_page_url": "blog.cloudflare.com/page",
    "malicious_domain_categories": [
      "Malware"
    ],
    "malicious_url_categories": [
      "Malware"
    ],
    "page_urls": [
      "blog.cloudflare.com/page1",
      "blog.cloudflare.com/page2"
    ],
    "url_reported_malicious": false
  },
  "success": true,
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ]
}
```