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		baus on July 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use LetsEncrypt and CloudFlare to secure any Herok... Just to clarify, is traffic unencrypted between CloudFlare and Heroku? Are those connections over the public internet?

samwillis on July 21, 2016 [–]

CloudFlare is only providing DNS, no traffic goes though it in this instance.

It is trivial however to setup CloadFlare to have encrypted traffic to your Heroku app for free when using their cdn/webapp firewall service as your app is on https://appname.herokuapp.com which CloudFlare proxy.

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