Known issues

Below are some known bugs and issues to be aware of when using Cloudflare Workers.

Route specificity

• When defining route specificity, a trailing /* in your pattern may not act as expected.

Consider two different Workers, each deployed to the same zone. Worker A is assigned the example.com/images/* route and Worker B is given the example.com/images* route pattern. With these in place, here are how the following URLs will be resolved:

// (A) example.com/images/*
// (B) example.com/images*

"example.com/images"
// -> B
"example.com/images123"
// -> B
"example.com/images/hello"
// -> B

You will notice that all examples trigger Worker B. This includes the final example, which exemplifies the unexpected behavior.

When adding a wildcard on a subdomain, here are how the following URLs will be resolved:

// (A) *.example.com/a
// (B) a.example.com/*

"a.example.com/a"
// -> B

wrangler dev

• When running wrangler dev --remote, all outgoing requests are given the cf-workers-preview-token header, which Cloudflare recognizes as a preview request. This applies to the entire Cloudflare network, so making HTTP requests to other Cloudflare zones is currently discarded for security reasons. To enable a workaround, insert the following code into your Worker script:

const request = new Request(url, incomingRequest);
request.headers.delete('cf-workers-preview-token');
return await fetch(request);

Fetch API in CNAME setup

When you make a subrequest using fetch() from a Worker, the Cloudflare DNS resolver is used. When a zone has a Partial (CNAME) setup, all hostnames that the Worker needs to be able to resolve require a dedicated DNS entry in Cloudflare’s DNS setup. Otherwise the Fetch API call will fail with status code 530 (1016).

Setup with missing DNS records in Cloudflare DNS

// Zone in partial setup: example.com
// DNS records at Authoritative DNS: sub1.example.com, sub2.example.com, ...
// DNS records at Cloudflare DNS: sub1.example.com

"sub1.example.com/"
// -> Can be resolved by Fetch API
"sub2.example.com/"
// -> Cannot be resolved by Fetch API, will lead to 530 status code

After adding sub2.example.com to Cloudflare DNS

// Zone in partial setup: example.com
// DNS records at Authoritative DNS: sub1.example.com, sub2.example.com, ...
// DNS records at Cloudflare DNS: sub1.example.com, sub2.example.com

"sub1.example.com/"
// -> Can be resolved by Fetch API
"sub2.example.com/"
// -> Can be resolved by Fetch API

Custom ports

For Workers subrequests, when a Worker is deployed, custom ports are ignored and requests are sent to the scheme’s default port, such as 443 for HTTPS. Note that when developing a Worker locally, or from within the Cloudflare dashboard using Quick Edit, custom ports are respected and allowed.

For example:

await fetch('https://example.com:1234/foo')

is the equivalent of:

await fetch('https://example.com/foo')

Fetch to IP addresses

For Workers subrequests, requests can only be made to URLs, not to IP addresses directly. To overcome this limitation add a A or AAAA name record to your zone ↗ and then fetch that resource.

For example, in the zone example.com create a record of type A with the name server and value 192.0.2.1, and then use:

await fetch('http://server.example.com')

Do not use:

await fetch('http://192.0.2.1')