Developer Debugs E-Commerce Site Bug That AI Repeatedly Failed to Solve

A developer building a custom handcrafted-goods e-commerce platform encountered persistent styling and layout issues after routing the site through Cloudflare. The site appeared fully functional in local development but broke when accessed via a Cloudflare tunnel, with featured product cards and CSS styles failing to load correctly. AI tools initially pointed to Cloudflare's caching behavior — which was overriding the server's Cache-Control headers and serving stale assets for up to four hours — but clearing caches and following AI suggestions did not resolve the problem. Further investigation revealed Cloudflare was also modifying HTML through its Email Obfuscation feature, complicating diagnosis. Despite multiple AI-assisted attempts, the root cause required hands-on manual debugging rather than AI-generated fixes.
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