Website Security & Threat Management
Protecting web origins with Authenticated Origin Pulls

Protecting web origins with Authenticated Origin Pulls

2/28/2015 · Rajeev Sharma

What this post added

Introduced Authenticated Origin Pulls, a feature that leverages TLS client authentication to allow origin servers to verify the identity of Cloudflare. This is achieved by adding support to nginx for client certificate verification, enabling origin servers to drop requests not originating from Cloudflare's certificate. The feature is opt-in and available across all Cloudflare plans.

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