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Cloudflare uses a reverse proxy design for its CDN features.
by ridgewell 7y ago
Cloudflare uses a reverse proxy design for its CDN features.
- acdha 7y agoAs do Akamai and CloudFront. It’s not a MITM when it’s a contracted service sites choose to use rather than an attack.
- communist3 7y agoRight. Hence why GP said it was an MITM attack on the Internet at large, and not on any specific, individual website. Cloudflare is an existential risk to the Internet, a terribly bad actor with a terribly bad track record. Their actions are, depending on how generous and optimistic you are, somewhere between painfully ignorant and outright malicious. There aren't any explanations for their behaviour that are sensible or charitable. Nobody anywhere should use their products. Someone does so not only at their own peril, but everybody else's (so they should be blamed, too.) The company and their enablers will face a reckoning once the last good parts of the Internet are done dying by their hand.
- madeofpalk 7y agoI had to look it up to make sure I knew exactly what a 'reverse proxy' is > a reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. Isn't that what every CDN does? Isn't that the definition of a CDN?
- Terretta 7y agoSome CDNs, you put the content on them and link to it. Some reverse proxy back to your ‘origin’ server(s). Some, like Akamai, offer both.