Cloudflare is caching xml Sitemap

Hi @sarasri ,
thank you. I will look into this. Did you try to exclude the sitemaps via URLs?

Thanks for replying @salvatorefresta ..

OK, sitemap is updating but it taking time to update, like 15 to 20 minutes, I do not know how it is working but it updating after some time. But I think it should be excluded from plugin permanently. And I did not try sitemap URL in exclude tab. Can you please let me know how to put sitemap URL in exclusion tab (what is right format).
And last thing, the sitemap generated by Rank math seo plugin is virtual dynamic.

Thank You once again…

Hi @sarasri ,
I visited your sitemap URL and the response headers are:

age: 5
cache-control: maxage=31536000
cf-cache-status: HIT
cf-ray: 6119381f9d89f917-MXP
cf-request-id: 07a3a167bf0000f917762a7000000001
content-encoding: br
content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:53:55 GMT
expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
expires: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:53:49 GMT
nel: {"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
pragma: public
report-to: {"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report?s=%2FkLlElF2kSopeujcMbcX3CumMjf2%2FRMRMG9pJPXYFcXg34K%2FWX1NxSVVWaLgCbdLRk9qqdQCjfMDNpCCrMDr2GdNGOBHG4TZok8R81mG"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
server: cloudflare
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-powered-by: PHP/7.4.11
x-robots-tag: noindex
x-turbo-charged-by: LiteSpeed
x-wp-cf-super-cache: no-cache
x-wp-cf-super-cache-cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

As you can see, the x-wp-cf-super-cache-cache-control is set to no-cache but there is a different cache-control.

So another plugin (or server rule) is adding this cache-control, it’s not a plugin issue.

Please check your Litespeed server browser caching rules

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Salvatore Fresta.

Thank You @salvatorefresta

I will sure check server side cache. But can you please tell me what is cf-cache-status: HIT means? Do cloudflare is caching sitemap URLs?

cf-cache-status: HIT means that the page/asset is returned from the Cloudflare cache instead of the original server. So yes, cloudflare is caching your sitemaps due to the cache-control value I shown you before

I understood, I am closing this topic now.

And thanks for distributing a great plugin