April 14, 2017 4:00PM
Understanding Our Cache and the Web Cache Deception Attack
Page Rules
Attacks
Tips
Security
Reliability
Best Practices
Cache
Speed & Reliability
About a month ago, security researcher Omer Gil published the details of an attack that he calls the Web Cache Deception attack. It works against sites that sit behind a reverse proxy (like Cloudflare) and are misconfigured in a particular way....
February 02, 2017 12:15PM
NANOG - the art of running a network and discussing common operational issues
BGP
Peering
Bandwidth
Tips
Events
NANOG
The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) is the loci of modern Internet innovation and the day-to-day cumulative network-operational knowledge of thousands and thousands of network engineers....
August 12, 2016 2:03PM
This is strictly a violation of the TCP specification
Tips
TCP
Debugging
I was asked to debug another weird issue on our network. Apparently every now and then a connection going through CloudFlare would time out with 522 HTTP error....
August 03, 2016 12:26PM
CloudFlare's JSON-powered Documentation Generator
API
JSON
Tips
Programming
Everything that it's possible to do in the CloudFlare Dashboard is also possible through our RESTful API. We use the same API to power the dashboard itself....
August 02, 2016 3:01PM
Introducing the p0f BPF compiler
TCP
Tips
Programming
Two years ago we blogged about our love of BPF (BSD packet filter) bytecode. Today we are very happy to open source another component of the bpftools: our p0f BPF compiler!...