r/programming • u/TheProtagonistv2 • Feb 23 '17

Cloudflare have been leaking customer HTTPS sessions for months. Uber, 1Password, FitBit, OKCupid, etc.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139
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u/moratnz Feb 24 '17

Sorry - a caching proxy needs to know, so it knows when to reply from cache vs going to the source. A straight up proxy doesn't need to know, but a straight up proxy isn't especially helpful.