title: Cache Response Rules description: Increase cacheability with the ability to set cache-control directives, manage cache tags, or strip Set-Cookie headers from origin responses before they are cached. products:

You can now control how Cloudflare handles origin responses without changing your origin. Cache Response Rules let you set Cache-Control directives, manage cache tags, and strip headers like Set-Cookie from origin responses before they reach Cloudflare's cache. Whether traffic is cached or passed through dynamically, these rules give you control over origin response behavior that was previously out of reach.

What changed

Cache Rules previously only operated on request attributes. Cache Response Rules introduce a new response phase that evaluates origin responses and lets you act on them before caching. You can now:

Benefits

Get started

Configure Cache Response Rules in the Cloudflare dashboard under Caching > Cache Rules, or via the Rulesets API. For more details, refer to the Cache Rules documentation.