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Comment by duskwuff

7 months ago

> I don’t get why headers and requests need to be spoofed if all traffic is over https?

Because the traffic is to a CDN endpoint (like Cloudflare) which expects it to be a HTTP message.

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tomsonj  7 months ago

it can still be an https message, who cares what the path, query string, or headers look like? that is all encrypted

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