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Re:Building a fast, secured and free static site in less tha... by thesmallestcat on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @08:17AM (#15226638)
People need to stop calling Cloudflare's offering HTTPS support. It's snake oil.
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Re:Building a fast, secured and free static site in less tha... by chrift on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @09:41AM (#15227180)
This is the first time I've heard such claims. Do you have any more details about this?
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Re:Building a fast, secured and free static site in less tha... by sleepychu on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:05AM (#15227853) 

    +------------------+               +------------------+             +-----------------------+
    |                  |               |                  |             |                       |
    |    CLIENT        | +---------->  |    CLOUDFLARE    | +---------> |       YOU             |
    |                  |     SSL       |                  |   NOT SSL   |                       |
    +------------------+               +------------------+             +-----------------------+
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Re:Building a fast, secured and free static site in less tha... by ejcx on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:04AM (#15227846)
OP will undoubtedly not have more info. It's not snake-oil. I used to work there. There's a real TLS connection.
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Re:Building a fast, secured and free static site in less tha... by orf on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @09:43AM (#15227197)
How so? Shared SSL cert is still an SSL cert. Not snake oil.
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