Vary for Images: Serve the Correct Images to the Correct Browsers
2021-09-13
We’re excited to announce support for Vary, an HTTP header that ensures different content types can be served to user-agents with differing capabilities....
Crawler Hints: How Cloudflare Is Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Web Searches
2021-07-28
Crawler Hints provide high quality data to search engine crawlers on when content has been changed on sites using Cloudflare, allowing them to precisely time their crawling, avoid wasteful crawls, and generally reduce resource consumption of customer origins....
Introducing Smart Edge Revalidation
2021-07-28
When both Last-Modified and Etag headers are absent from the origin response, Smart Edge Revalidation will use the time the object was cached on Cloudflare as the Last-Modified header value. When ...
CDN-Cache-Control: Precision Control for your CDN(s)
2021-05-21
Today we are thrilled to announce our support of a new set of HTTP response headers that provide surgical control over our CDN’s caching decisions. CDN-Cache-Control allows customers to directly control how our CDN behaves without affecting the behavior of downstream or upstream caches....
Introducing: Smarter Tiered Cache Topology Generation
2021-02-18
Announcing a fundamental improvement to Argo Tiered Cache we’re calling Smart Tiered Cache Topology. When enabled, Argo Tiered Cache will now dynamically select the single best upper tier for each of your website’s origins while providing tiered cache analytics. ...
Cloudflare’s Always Online and the Internet Archive Team Up to Fight Origin Errors
2020-09-17
Today is exciting for all those who want the Internet to be stronger, more resilient, and have important redundancies: Cloudflare is pleased to announce a partnership with the Internet Archive to bring new functionality to our Always Online service. ...
The Project Jengo Saga: How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll – and Won!
2019-11-04
Remember 2016? Pokemon Go was all the rage, we lost Prince, and there were surprising election results in both the UK and US. Back in 2016, Blackbird Technologies was notorious in the world of patent litigation....
Project Jengo Celebrates One Year Anniversary by Releasing Prior Art
2018-05-11
Today marks the one year anniversary of Project Jengo, a notorious patent troll. In homage to the typical anniversary cliché, we are taking this opportunity to reflect on the last year and confirm that we’re still going strong....