Why your 301 redirects silently become 302s

A technical note for teams moving from Netlify to Cloudflare. A _redirects rule with no status code returns 301 (Moved Permanently) on Netlify but 302 (Found, a temporary redirect) on Cloudflare Pages and Workers static assets. Nothing errors, so it is easy to miss, and Google does not treat a temporary redirect as a canonical signal. The note shows how to detect it with curl, fix it with explicit codes, and check before the DNS (Domain Name System) switch.