Raw SignalSep 28, 20261 min read1 source

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary

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Cloudflare has reportedly shipped support for HTTP `Vary` caching.

The cited account describes the previous constraint: behind Cloudflare caching, a URL that returned HTML for Accept: text/html and JSON otherwise could cache the wrong representation. The change makes header-selected representations newly practical to evaluate at the CDN layer.

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  1. 1simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/23/hn-49823961
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