What is the right Cloudflare cache behavior working with Workers?

Hi guys, I think I'm pretty confused of my understanding about how CF edge cache works, especially when it works with Workers.

What is the right cache behavior of this Workers code?

// let's say a handler is just returning simple text content, with Cache-Control header like this:
function handler(ctx) {
  return new Response("some content", {
    headers: {
      'Cache-control': 'public, max-age=600, s-maxage=600'
    }
  });
}

// let's say a handler is just returning simple text content, with Cache-Control header like this:
function handler(ctx) {
  return new Response("some content", {
    headers: {
      'Cache-control': 'public, max-age=600, s-maxage=600'
    }
  });
}

// let's say a handler is just returning simple text content, with Cache-Control header like this:
function handler(ctx) {
  return new Response("some content", {
    headers: {
      'Cache-control': 'public, max-age=600, s-maxage=600'
    }
  });
}

// let's say a handler is just returning simple text content, with Cache-Control header like this:
function handler(ctx) {
  return new Response("some content", {
    headers: {
      'Cache-control': 'public, max-age=600, s-maxage=600'
    }
  });
}

Let's assume the Cloudflare Cache setting is like this:

Cache eligibility: Eligible for cache
Origin Cache Control: Enabled

I expected that the response should be cached in CF edge cache and include

Cf-Cache-Status: HIT

Cf-Cache-Status: HIT

Cf-Cache-Status: HIT

Cf-Cache-Status: HIT header because the Origin Cache Control is enabled so the cache should respect the Cache-Control header of the repsonse, but it seems not. It doesn't include the

Cf-Cache-Status

Cf-Cache-Status

Cf-Cache-Status

Cf-Cache-Status header at all.

I've also read https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/concepts/cdn-cache-control/ page and set Cloudflare-CDN-Cache-Control header with the same value, but it still didn't seem to be cached by the Edge cache.

Based on the behavior described above, it seems that Cloudflare Workers are treated somewhat differently from a typical origin (particularly with respect to caching behavior). Is this correct? And if so, is there any way to make this response cached by cloudflare?

Thank you.

Cloudflare Docs

CDN-Cache-Control

CDN-Cache-Control is a response header field set on the origin to separately control the behavior of CDN caches from other intermediaries that might handle a response. You can set the CDN-Cache-Control or Cloudflare-CDN-Cache-Control response header using the same directives used with the Cache-Control.

SuperHelpflare•12/18/25, 10:01 AM

Workers run in front of the Cloudflare Cache layer. This means it's not possible to avoid invoking a Worker by using the Cache.
If you want to cache things between Worker invocations, you can use the Cache API to store and retrieve data from the Cloudflare Cache (which is local per colocation).
For global data/cache storage, you may be interested in Workers KV instead.

Jubeen LeeOP•12/18/25, 10:24 AM

Cool. Thank you!

What is the right Cloudflare cache behavior working with Workers?

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