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Stack Overflow's Cloudflare Usage FAQ
DNS
We use Cloudflare’s DNS service for SENetwork's name resolution. Stack also uses Amazon Route 53 and Google for DNS, however the majority of the domains we have use Cloudflare. Because Cloudflare ...
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A site URL changed and now its icon in SEDE is broken
The issues will be quick hacked (fixed if you wish) running the following SQL update statement on the Data.StackExchange database by someone with full database access.
That sites table does get/...
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Load jQuery from Stack's CDN if Google's CDN is blocked (or always)
Here's a practical solution for users: Fortunately there's this addon called LocalCDN that works exactly as its name suggests: It blocks those requests to CDNs and loads up those resources locally, ...
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A site URL changed and now its icon in SEDE is broken
This has been updated and should now be showing the correct names and icons for:
Writing
Writing Meta
Psychology & Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience Meta
Code Golf and Coding Challenges
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Is the Stack Overflow secure communication out of date?
No, it is not out of date. Here are the secure connection details for https://cdn.sstatic.net which hosts all the CSS files:
None of those is out of date, and all of them are considered good ...
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Close button is no longer visible in “toast” notifications and error messages
Thanks for the report!
SVG icons recently moved from /img/svg-icons to /img/stacks-icons and we overlooked updating the CORS policy along with it. The issue should be resolved now, though you might ...
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Was access to unminified JS code via cdn-dev.sstatic.net deliberately removed?
A little background: when the Q&A application spins up it initializes individual site settings which includes probing a bunch of file paths to check for existence of certain assets (e.g. email ...
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Images from i.sstatic.net only work for me after being accessed from another IP address
I had this issue in the last 2 months and thought it was due to other reasons. Ubuntu 24.04 here and just signed up for a week on a free wiregaurd vpn server close to my location. Now whenever there ...
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Can't see the attached images in Stack Exchange questions in Sweden
I'm the OP from the other question and even though, as edited into it, I can now see the images reported there I can now see the images in the Realistically randomize Rubik's Cube thread, I just ...
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cdn.sstatic.net is blocked by company firewall
You could self-host the minimal required files from the CDN on a web server on your own machine, where you change your DNS entries (in your hosts file) to point to your local machine.
This is not an ...
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Images from i.sstatic.net only work for me after being accessed from another IP address
Thanks for all the detailed information, that helped us dig quite deep into the issues you're experiencing!
Unfortunately after looking at our front and back end logs, we believe this issue is only ...
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