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AI-generatedServe Stale Content limits on origin error codes and Cache-Control interaction
Cloudflare's Serve Stale Content setting controls whether a cached response is returned when an origin is unreachable or returns an error, but the boundary between stale hits and fresh misses depends on both the error class and any origin Cache-Control directives. The feature separates background revalidation from origin failure handling, and directives such
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