Redirects for .exe files not possible – looking for workaround or temporary exception

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Hi everyone,

we’re facing a technical limitation with Webflow and are hoping for ideas or alternative approaches from the community.

We’ve launched our website on Webflow (multi-language, using Localization), and overall everything works great. However, we need to set up 301 redirects to URLs ending in .exe (e.g. https://domain.com/downloads/name.exe) — and unfortunately, these don’t work.

Webflow support confirmed that redirects to .exe files are blocked and return a 406 error due to hosting-level security restrictions.
This is a major issue for us as a software provider, since we rely on clean, permanent redirects for direct download links.

We’ve already tested Cloudflare proxy solutions (Redirect Rules, Workers, etc.), but they aren’t compatible with Webflow’s SSL setup, which requires the proxy to be turned off — so that didn’t work either.

Has anyone here successfully implemented a workaround for this scenario?
We’re only dealing with a handful of .exe files and are open to smart routing or infrastructure tips.

Thanks in advance for any advice!
Best regards,

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I setup this up often for clients, if you need.
There is a way to setup Cloudflare with full SSL and utilize it’s R2 object store for e.g. EXE’s and large videos.

For most clients I create a subdomain, e.g. files.mysite.com for these, but it’s also possible to put them under a path e.g. mysite.com/files using rewriting or redirection.