I apologize, I wasn’t saying you didn’t know what you were doing. I was suggesting you didn’t know what the problem was and that you were putting a band-aid on it instead of getting the issue resolved. The band-aid I might add, isn’t probably meant to be manually set. Settings like that can change without warning and shouldn’t be considered a ‘production’ solution to another issue. If a bunch of users are all manually setting the same CDN they may saturate it and cause even more problems. The PoP sites are ‘most likely’ to be automatically routed to local users.
-I apologize for not having an answer about why the url setting &cdn was removed.-