no cache headers and session cookie

Certainly! Here's a solution tailored to your scenario with Laravel and CDN caching:

Why This Happens

By default, Laravel's web routes (using the web middleware group) are stateful sessions, CSRF protection, etc., which sets cookies (<appname>_session and XSRF-TOKEN) and applies private/no-cache headers for user security.

Implications

• Session cookies: Mark requests as user-specific (dynamic), so CDNs/proxies won't cache the pages.
• Cache-Control: private, no-cache...: Instructs intermediate caches (like Varnish and Cloudflare) not to cache these responses.

When Should You Change This?

• For logged-in/personalized pages: Keep current settings; don't cache.
• For public pages (e.g., marketing pages, docs): You can safely remove session cookies and change cache headers to enable CDN/proxy caching.

How To Adjust Cache Headers & Cookies

1. Exclude Session/Cookie Middleware for Public Pages

Move public routes into a new middleware group that doesn’t start a session or set CSRF cookies:

// In routes/web.php

Route::middleware(['public.cache'])->group(function () {
    Route::get('/', [LandingPageController::class, 'show']);
    // ...other non-personalized routes
});

Then in app/Http/Kernel.php, add:

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    //...
    'public.cache' => [
        \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
        // don't include StartSession or VerifyCsrfToken
    ],
];

2. Manually Set Cache Headers on Responses

For those routes, set more permissive headers in the controller:

public function show(Request $request)
{
    return response(view('homepage'))
        ->header('Cache-Control', 'public, max-age=3600, s-maxage=3600');
}

3. Remove XSRF-TOKEN Cookie

• Only generated by Laravel's VerifyCsrfToken middleware (part of web group).
• Not included if you remove that middleware for public pages.

4. Cloudflare Caching

• In Cloudflare, set a page rule to respect origin cache headers.
• Optionally, you can force "Cache Everything".

5. Varnish

• Ensure Varnish is configured to pass or cache correctly by looking at cookies and cache headers.

6. Testing

• curl -I https://yourdomain.com and confirm Cache-Control is set as you wish and no cookies are present for your public pages.

Summary

Yes, it's default for web routes. To enable cache/CDN optimizations:

• Separate out public/static routes to not use session/csrf/cookie middleware.
• Set custom cache headers for those routes.

Let me know if you want example code for a custom middleware to handle this as well!