Cloudflare Introduces Cache Response Rules for Post-Origin Cache Control
Cloudflare's Cache Response Rules let you intercept and modify origin responses before they hit the cache — useful for practitioners managing content delivery at scale.
Why it matters
A feature expansion for CDN cache control that gives developers finer-grained rules over what gets cached and how, relevant to anyone optimizing origin-to-cache pipelines.
The key facts
8 to knowCache Response Rules operate in the response phase, after origin responds but before cache write
Extends previous Cache Rules (request-phase only) to include response-phase evaluation
Enables conditional cache behavior based on origin response attributes
Published August 2026
Cache Response Rules operate in the response phase — after origin responds, before caching
Previously Cache Rules only evaluated request attributes
Rules engine adds post-origin evaluation capability
Cloudflare product feature (not AI-specific)
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Publisher excerpt: Cloudflare recently introduced Cache Response Rules, a rules engine that operates after an origin server responds but before content is written to Cloudflare's cache. Previously, Cache Rules operated only on request attributes. Cache Response Rules add a response phase that evaluates origin…