diff --git a/packages/js-lib/src/http/fetcher.test.ts b/packages/js-lib/src/http/fetcher.test.ts
index 228bd24b..e0c9283c 100644
--- a/packages/js-lib/src/http/fetcher.test.ts
+++ b/packages/js-lib/src/http/fetcher.test.ts
@@ -377,6 +377,27 @@ test('retryAfter date', async () => {
   expect(r).toBe('ok')
 })
 
+test('retryAfter cloudflare body', async () => {
+  vi.useFakeTimers()
+  const fetcher = getFetcher({
+    debug: true,
+  })
+
+  // Cloudflare returns retry-after:0 but encodes the real wait in the JSON body as retry_after
+  const badResponse = (): Response =>
+    Response.json({ retry_after: 2 }, { status: 429, headers: { 'retry-after': '0' } })
+
+  vi.spyOn(Fetcher, 'callNativeFetch')
+    .mockResolvedValueOnce(badResponse())
+    .mockResolvedValueOnce(badResponse())
+    .mockResolvedValueOnce(new Response('ok'))
+
+  const promise = fetcher.getText('')
+  await vi.runAllTimersAsync()
+  const r = await promise
+  expect(r).toBe('ok')
+})
+
 test('tryFetch', async () => {
   vi.spyOn(Fetcher, 'callNativeFetch').mockResolvedValue(
     new Response('bad', {
diff --git a/packages/js-lib/src/http/fetcher.ts b/packages/js-lib/src/http/fetcher.ts
index caf50846..00f242cc 100644
--- a/packages/js-lib/src/http/fetcher.ts
+++ b/packages/js-lib/src/http/fetcher.ts
@@ -629,6 +629,15 @@ export class Fetcher {
           this.cfg.logger.warn('retry-after could not be parsed')
         }
       }
+
+      // Cloudflare returns retry-after:0 but includes the real delay in the body as retry_after
+      if (!(timeout > 0) && res.body && typeof res.body === 'object') {
+        const bodyRetryAfter = (res.body as any).retry_after
+        if (typeof bodyRetryAfter === 'number' && bodyRetryAfter > 0) {
+          timeout = bodyRetryAfter * 1000
+          this.cfg.logger.log(`retry-after (from body): ${bodyRetryAfter}`)
+        }
+      }
     }
 
     if (!timeout) {