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Cloudflare works at the DNS/routing level. You can use their layer to communicate via HTTPS with the browser. The connection between your site and Cloudflare wo

by jtruk 10y ago

Cloudflare works at the DNS/routing level. You can use their layer to communicate via HTTPS with the browser. The connection between your site and Cloudflare won't be encrypted... which is a bit of an antipattern (as discussed elsewhere).

joshkpeterson 10y ago
If you want you can use a self signed cert for that leg.
ncouture 10y ago
It can be end-to-end SSL: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/ https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/
- stordoff 10y ago
  User<>CloudFlare and CloudFlare<>Origin use separate SSL connections, so not quite end-to-end (CloudFlare sees the traffic unencrypted)
- jtruk 10y ago
  Yes it can, but not in the context of the post I commented on.