HTTP Purge method not allowed!

Website, Application, Performance
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What is the domain name?
https://www.echt-susteren.nl

Have you searched for an answer?
yes

When you tested your domain, what were the results?
405 not allowed error

Describe the issue you are having:
We are a software developing company. www.echt-susteren.nl is using a cms/website solution we have build. When something is changed/added to the cms a http purge request is done to the frontend to clear the cache so changes are also visible at frontend. This purge request is not allowed since echt-zusteren has migrated their domain towards cloudflare.

What error message or number are you receiving?
405 not allowed

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

  1. Trying to find where this can be configured in cloudflare

Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?
yes

What are the steps to reproduce the error:

Do a purge request towards https://www.echt-susteren.nl using for example Postman

Have you tried from another browser and/or incognito mode?
yes

Please attach a screenshot of the error:
Not needed

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Hi,

there is no such thing as an HTTP PURGE method. Cloudflare doesn’t support this non-standard request type to my knowledge.

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If this is something done from the app to the app, have the request done on the server itself by configuring it to resolve the server name locally instead of communicating through Cloudflare.

Cloudflare may maintain its own cache layer in which case a local cache is potentially unnecessary additional complexity or may not be in sync in which case a per item cache from Cloudflare’s cache she may also be required.