HTTP/3 inspection on Cloudflare Gateway
Jun 24, 2022Ankur Aggarwal

Summary
This post announces the upcoming support for HTTP/3 inspection within Cloudflare Gateway. It details the technical challenges of inspecting HTTP/3 traffic due to its reliance on QUIC over UDP, contrasting it with legacy TCP-based protocols. The post outlines how Cloudflare Gateway will enable full visibility and security policy application (AV-scanning, DLP, filtering) to HTTP/3 traffic by proxying UDP traffic and enabling TLS decryption.
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