Setting the DNS record to bypass Cloudflare seems to not have any immediate effect?

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I have set up a domain name to use Cloudflare. I have tested SSL and all seems well. However I have found that it can cause webfonts to not display in IE11. So I tried to "bypass" cloudflare by clicking on the orange cloud for the status of the A and CName record withing Cloudflare\DNS. The orange cloud icon goes grey.

So I have switched from:

Orange Cloud: Records that display an orange cloud icon are accelerated and protected by CloudFlare

To:

Grey Cloud: Records that display a grey cloud icon will bypass CloudFlare, using only CloudFlare DNS

However when I then try to load up www.mydomain.com again in IE I still get "https://", as prefix, which implies that the domain is still not bypassing Cloudflare. I tried again after 10 mins, cleared temporary files and I still get no resolution.

I have now worked out that restarting the IE browser solves this, but I am not sure why. Is this to do with the 301 page redirect that my page rule invokes to "Always use https" for pattern "/*". Is there a way to clear this without closing and restarting the browser?

Linked to the above I found that I could only get "Full" SSL to work to force "HTTPS". "Flexible" SSL still allowed "HTTP" for some reason.

Advice on the above appreciated.

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1 Answers

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DNS records do have a Time To Live before the they update (I believe this is 299 seconds on domains set-up using CloudFlare full-host DNS), however I do not think this issue is a CloudFlare problem.

A https prefix does not mean a site is using CloudFlare as there could be an SSL on the origin server. Using the command line I would advise you ping the domain to find if it's routing through CloudFlare or not. You can do this by typing:

ping yourdomain.com

If it routes to your IP Address you know it's not on CloudFlare, if it points to an IP on the CloudFlare network then you are routing through CloudFlare (in which case wait for it to propagate, clear your cache, if you still have no luck raise a support ticket with CloudFlare).