diff --git a/services/web/app/coffee/Features/Compile/ClsiManager.coffee b/services/web/app/coffee/Features/Compile/ClsiManager.coffee
index ca3cd2b6ab..cff2b931b6 100755
--- a/services/web/app/coffee/Features/Compile/ClsiManager.coffee
+++ b/services/web/app/coffee/Features/Compile/ClsiManager.coffee
@@ -146,13 +146,8 @@ module.exports = ClsiManager =
 						logger.log project_id: project_id, projectStateHash: projectStateHash, docs: docUpdaterDocs?, "checked project state"
 					# see if we can send an incremental update to the CLSI
 					if docUpdaterDocs? and (options.syncType isnt "full") and not error?
-						# Workaround: for now, always flush project to mongo on compile
-						# until we have automatic periodic flushing on the docupdater
-						# side, to prevent documents staying in redis too long.
-						DocumentUpdaterHandler.flushProjectToMongo project_id, (error) ->
-							return callback(error) if error?
-							Metrics.inc "compile-from-redis"
-							ClsiManager._buildRequestFromDocupdater project_id, options, project, projectStateHash, docUpdaterDocs, callback
+						Metrics.inc "compile-from-redis"
+						ClsiManager._buildRequestFromDocupdater project_id, options, project, projectStateHash, docUpdaterDocs, callback
 					else
 						Metrics.inc "compile-from-mongo"
 						ClsiManager._buildRequestFromMongo project_id, options, project, projectStateHash, callback
diff --git a/services/web/app/coffee/Features/DocumentUpdater/DocumentUpdaterHandler.coffee b/services/web/app/coffee/Features/DocumentUpdater/DocumentUpdaterHandler.coffee
index 466152924e..e806ddf8dd 100644
--- a/services/web/app/coffee/Features/DocumentUpdater/DocumentUpdaterHandler.coffee
+++ b/services/web/app/coffee/Features/DocumentUpdater/DocumentUpdaterHandler.coffee
@@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ module.exports = DocumentUpdaterHandler =
 		# docs from redis via the docupdater. Otherwise we will need to
 		# fall back to getting them from mongo.
 		timer = new metrics.Timer("get-project-docs")
-		url = "#{settings.apis.documentupdater.url}/project/#{project_id}/doc?state=#{projectStateHash}"
+		url = "#{settings.apis.documentupdater.url}/project/#{project_id}/get_and_flush_if_old?state=#{projectStateHash}"
 		logger.log project_id:project_id, "getting project docs from document updater"
-		request.get url, (error, res, body)->
+		request.post url, (error, res, body)->
 			timer.done()
 			if error?
 				logger.error err:error, url:url, project_id:project_id, "error getting project docs from doc updater"