Automatic Platform Optimization - APO caches more crawler and bot traffic again
- Announced
- Tags
- Automatic-Platform-Optimization
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reef/rss-rule-v1 - Source
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-08-27-accept-header-caching/
<p>We fixed a regression where Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) stopped caching some HTML requests that did not send an explicit <code>Accept: text/html</code> header — commonly crawlers, bots, and uptime monitors. These requests were being served from your origin (<code>cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC</code>) instead of the cache.</p> <p>APO now caches these requests again. No action is needed. If you added a Transform Rule to set <code>Accept: text/html</code> as a workaround, you can remove it.</p> <p>For details on how APO decides what to cache, refer to <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/automatic-platform-optimization/about/">About APO</a>.</p>
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