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Bot Management cookie causes cache bypass in O2O setups

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In Orange-to-Orange (O2O) setups where a SaaS provider uses Cloudflare for SaaS and their customer also has their own Cloudflare zone the __cf_bm Bot Management cookie returned from the origin-facing Cloudflare zone can cause the eyeball-facing zone to bypass cache. This occurs because the Set-Cookie header in the response triggers Cloudflare's default behavior of not caching responses with Set-Cookie.

If you are seeing unexpectedly low cache hit rates in an O2O setup with Bot Management enabled, this may be the cause.

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