Integrate with Cloudflare's new Automatic Platform Optimization

[gevcen]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Cloudflare has released a new feature called Automatic Platform Optimization. However, a problem arises is that it requires the official Cloudflare plugin to be installed, which therefore requires to disable WP Rocket's Cloudflare addon.

This leads to a problem, that users will never be sure that Cloudflare's cache would be cleared when the cache is cleared in WP Rocket. Eventough their official plugin supports clearing cache on content update, it doesnt answer the problem that Cloudflare cache won't be cleared when it's manually cleared by the user in WP Rocket.

Describe the solution you'd like
WP Rocket has all the necessary information in the Cloudflare addon (APIs...) that is sufficient for enabling the new Automatic Platform Optimization and those data can be sent to Cloudflare when we enable the feature.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Alternatively, we could add a toggle within the Cloudflare addon in WP Rocket to enable the new APO, and in this case it's WP Rocket who will make the "call" by sending the APIs. Similar button already exist for Dev Mode.

In fact, this alternative is the only possible way to integrate this feature into WP Rocket. Why? Well the other way around is hardly achievable because if we enable APO from Cloudflare dashboard itself, then I wonder how Cloudflare will find the APIs of WP Rocket's Cloudflare addon.

So the integration must come from the Cloudflare addon within WP Rocket, which I think many of us will appreciate being taken as a new priority.

Additional context
This is a major enhancement.

[PatrickD1985]

For now it will only work without having the WP Rocket Cloudflare add-on enabled as it conflicts with the Cloudlfare plugin BUT ALSO you now need the Cloudflare official plugin.

And indeed invalidating cache is a thing here.

For APO in an ideal situation I would love to see this be supported from within the add-on of WP-Rocket as this means one less plugin is needed and it will help to keep control over how Cache/Cloudflare is handled.

[Basilakis]

@PatrickD1985 is APO works for WooCommerce?

[PatrickD1985]

@Basilakis I would not be able to confirm that. As I have personal webshops.
Perhaps others can confirm this.

Please note; As it stands there is an issue currently with APO;
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/automatic-platform-optimization-enabled-i-no-longer-see-visitor-ip/210241/29
Estimated fix is coming Wednesday.

[Basilakis]

Thank you for Sharing

[ScottTravisHartley]

I can confirm that APO does work with woocommerce because it does make exclusions for woocommerce related cookies and was included in the announcement post.

[PatrickD1985]

And I can confirm Cloudflare released a fix for https://community.cloudflare.com/t/automatic-platform-optimization-enabled-i-no-longer-see-visitor-ip/210241/45
Which has been tested by myself and multiple others not to break real ip checks anymore (security and other limitations kinda stuff).

So if the WP-Rocket team can look into an integration, that would be marvelous.

[CyberCr33p]

Lots of my clients need this.

[markllego]

Quick Question: May I know if I can use the Cloudflare APO with WP-Rocket (having the Cloudflare option disabled)? Thank you.

[PatrickD1985]

@markllego APO does work with the cloudflare integration off in WP-Rocket and using the official Cloudflare Wordpress plugin. (Currently that is the only way to use it with WP Rocket)

I am still in the process of seeing how much benefit this really gives. (Still not sure if it will yield any major advantage over our own setup, but I have not been able to test that yet due to the above mentioned issue). I will get back on that here in the upcoming week. From what I have seen so far it really seems to help with FCP, TTFB and the like.

But in the long run having WP Rocket support APO would be great whichever way you look at it.

For quick reference, after setting it up you should be able to see the below header on your requests;
x-via: speedwp/origin,cookie
That way you know it is being served through APO.

[markllego]

I can confirm that WP-Rocket is working fine with Cloudflare APO.

Header:

status: 200
x-cache: HIT
set-cookie: __cfduid=d47b0b49c7bf0f606541c64303647b1531602349346; expires=Mon, 09-Nov-20 17:02:26 GMT; path=/; domain=.teacherph.com; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax; Secure
cf-cache-status: HIT
expires: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:53:22 GMT
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-via: speedwp/cache
last-modified: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:53:22 GMT
link: https://www.teacherph.com/wp-json/; rel="https://api.w.org/"
report-to: {"endpoints":[{"url":"https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report?lkg-colo=22&lkg-time=1602349346"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:02:26 GMT
cf-ray: 5e01e8b6eeb40abc-NRT
cf-edge-cache: cache,platform=wordpress
expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
nel: {"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
x-content-type-options: nosniff
content-encoding: br
age: 6532
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
cf-request-id: 05b50fc65100000abc9ca4f200000001
server: cloudflare
cache-control: max-age=0
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
:status: 200

[webtrainingwheels]

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