I set max-age to 300 but CF uses 14400

[drago.crnjac]

Hi there,

I’m setting max-age on one of my endpoints to 300 seconds.

If I GET that endpoint directly, without going through a domain proxied through CF, you can see the max-age is properly set.

Now if I GET that same endpoint through a domain that’s proxied through Cloudflare, Cloudflare sets the max-age to 14400.

Why is that?

We dynamically generate this JS file so it’s important for us that if a customer edits it, changes will propagate within 5 minutes max. Is there some other mechanism I don’t know about that CF uses and changes will still propagate within 300 seconds that I set on my origin server?

Thank you!

[drago.crnjac]

This is the screenshot of GET on the same endpoint but on the domain that’s proxied through CF. Forum doesn’t allow new accounts to post more than 1 image per post so I’m commenting with it.