HTTPS/TLS support
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Enable HTTPS connections to your website under Deflect
Last Updated: August 22, 2025When someone visits your website by entering a common URL starting with http:// their logins and passwords and other confidential data can be intercepted by undesired third parties. Strongly motivated attackers can even alter visited pages to try injecting malware into your users’ browsers. Threats like these can be prevented by allowing your readers to access your...
How TLS/HTTPS works on Deflect
Last Updated: August 22, 2025Normally when two computers communicate securely, without a caching proxy service like Deflect, the client (for example a browser) requests the server’s TLS certificate, checks that it trusts the certificate, then encrypts the connection using it. ISPs, businesses and governments – those who own the networks, or any other actor sitting in the middle between...