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@patmcqueen@Cloudflare See CF tickets #2364068#2653608#3184633#1887594 You can see it's a constant theme in every ticket that I open that we go round in circles for the first 5-10 replies of me explaining and re-explaining myself and CF just copying/pasting irrelevant portions of the CF docs