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Cloudflare: Incident updated: ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers

Incident updateNormal progress (typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917, 71%)Changed www.cloudflarestatus.com (opens in new tab)
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ChangedImpact#1
Before: minor
After: major
AddedUpdateidentified#2
Before: not present
After: Cloudflare has identified an issue affecting customers whose traffic passes through an external vendor firewall. Customers may observe: ERR_TIMED_OUT on standard HTTPS websites ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE on non-standard HTTPS ports (e.g., 8443) Cloudflare's network and edge are functioning normally. These failures occur at the firewall inspection layer. We're investigating to confirm the root cause and possible fixes.

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Tuesday, October 27

2 rewrites, 5 incident changes

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Incident updated: ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers on Cloudflare’s status page, changed 2026-10-27 14:43 UTC (change 5 of 7).

Title
Incident updated: ERR_TIMED_OUT and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE being observed by Cloudflare Customers
Vendor
Cloudflare
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