Cloudflare error page generator

slig 159 days ago |

I've been thinking about returning a fake error page instead of the "you are banned" or "you country has been blocked".

yjftsjthsd-h 159 days ago | |

Well, that's one way to show contempt for your users.

slig 147 days ago | | |

I feel no obligation to be polite to rude guests.

wheybags 159 days ago |

What is this for? I feel like that is missing from the faq. I would say it's a joke, but it looks too serious for that.

phyzome 159 days ago | |

Speaking of which, I made this some years ago: https://www.brainonfire.net/rx/the-joke.png

jtbayly 159 days ago | |

If your site goes down people can assume it’s cloudflare’s fault. You can blend in with the crowd without actually using CF.

Raed667 159 days ago | |

that's what makes it funnier

hk1337 159 days ago |

Can you actually customize that Cloudflare error page? I thought that was their error page when they lose connection with your site and custom error pages was just the ones your app creates, like 404, 403, etc?

zamadatix 159 days ago | |

I think the intent is for joke pages, like the demo link which acts like error 500 saying the host is on fire etc but really serves as 200 OK, not your actual Cloudflare service errors.

thm 159 days ago | |

You can, on the $30 plan - you can give it a hidden url on your current domain and it will cache & serve that content.

esseph 159 days ago | |

On free plans you can't, on business/enterprise plans you can.

Edit: Gemini says you could make a custom worker and do a 5XX redirect that way, but I haven't tried it. Does make sense though.

ascorbic 159 days ago | | |

This works for errors at the origin or in a Worker, but won't for errors at the edge, because those are in front of Workers.

kekub 159 days ago | | |

I think Gemini refers to Web Workers API rather than a Cloudflare Worker. And that should work indeed.

thewisenerd 159 days ago | | |

the custom error page is configurable at a domain (zone) level

which sometimes gets annoying because branding for subdomains could be different.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/rules/custom-errors/edit-e...

esseph 159 days ago | | |

> Error Pages do not apply to responses with an HTTP status code of 500, 501, 503, or 505. These exceptions help avoid issues with specific API endpoints and other web applications. You can still customize responses for these status codes using Custom Error Rules.

From that page ;)

philipwhiuk 159 days ago |

It should spew random garbage at the bottom of the page periodically to mimic Cloudbleed.