Apple's AASA CDN is still serving an old version of our apple-app-site-association file, 10 days after we updated it on our server.
Setup
App ID: 4572YRV3M6.gr.kathimerini.Kathimerini
Entitlement: applinks:www.kathimerini.gr
File: https://www.kathimerini.gr/.well-known/apple-app-site-association
The site is behind Cloudflare.
Change
We added this exclude, placed before the /syndromes/* entry:
{ "/": "/syndromes/gastronomos-prosfora/*", "exclude": true },
{ "/": "/syndromes/*" },
What we see
Our server returns the new file: HTTP 200, Content-Type: application/json, no redirects, valid JSON. The Last-Modified header is Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:06:39 GMT.
It returns the same response when requested with -A "AASA-Bot/1.0.0".
https://app-site-association.cdn-apple.com/a/v1/www.kathimerini.gr still returns the old file without the new rule.
A clean install on a test device still uses the old rules.
Questions
Is there a way to see whether Apple's crawler is failing to fetch our file, and why?
Can the CDN copy be refreshed, or is there a typical maximum delay?
Is there a Cloudflare or caching configuration known to cause this?
Thanks!
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