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Comment by sophacles

6 months ago

If a cdn didn't intercept requests, how else could it work? Literally every cdn is an mitm.

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ycombinatrix  6 months ago

I'm sure you've heard this before but Cloudflare isn't really a CDN. CDNs don't have to intercept requests to be useful.

I think what you describe is closer to "TLS terminating reverse proxy", which does need to intercept every request.

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