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Deleted Pages deployment hostname continues serving assets

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Description

### Which Cloudflare product?

Pages (Direct Upload)

### Wrangler version

4.120.0

### What happened?

A Pages deployment was deleted successfully and no longer appears in either `wrangler pages deployment list` or the Cloudflare Pages deployments API. More than 20 hours later, its hash-based `*.pages.dev` deployment hostname still returns HTTP 200 and serves the deployment's original static assets.

Retrying deletion with the original full deployment UUID now returns API error `8000009` (“The deployment ID you have specified does not exist”), while the deployment hostname remains live.

The current production deployment and custom domain are behaving correctly. I am withholding the account, project, deployment UUID, and hostname from this public issue because the stale deployment contains internal analytics exports. I can provide those details privately to a Cloudflare maintainer.

### Expected behavior

Deleting a Pages deployment should make its hash-based deployment hostname and assets unavailable, ideally returning 404, within a documented propagation window.

### Reproduction

1. Direct-upload a Pages deployment containing a uniquely identifiable static file.
2. Delete that non-current deployment using Wrangler or the Pages API.
3. Confirm it disappears from deployment listing.
4. Request `https://..pages.dev/`.
5. Observe that the deleted deployment may continue serving the file.

### Additional context

The project uses Pages advanced mode (`_worker.js`) and Direct Upload. The stale asset is served directly from the deleted deployment hostname. Repeating the DELETE request cannot invalidate it because the API considers the deployment nonexistent.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the Direct Upload case with Wrangler 4.120.0 and the Pages deployments API: delete a non-current deployment, confirm it disappears from listings, then request its hash-based pages.dev hostname and unique asset. Compare the DELETE response with hostname behavior; done means the deleted hostname no longer serves the asset and returns the documented unavailable response within the propagation window.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
cloud, devops
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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