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HTTP/3 inspection on Cloudflare Gateway

What's this blog post about?

Cloudflare Gateway, a comprehensive secure web gateway, is set to support HTTP/3 inspection. Currently, 25% of the internet uses HTTP/3 for faster browsing without compromising security. Administrators seeking to filter and inspect HTTP/3-enabled websites or APIs have had to compromise on performance or lose visibility by bypassing inspection. With HTTP/3 support in Cloudflare Gateway, administrators can have full visibility on all traffic while providing the fastest browsing experience for users. The adoption of HTTP/3 is driven by its ability to accelerate browsing activity using QUIC, a modern transport protocol that is always encrypted by default. This delivers faster performance by reducing round-trips between the user and the web server and is more performant for users with unreliable connections. Once support for HTTP/3 inspection becomes available later this year, administrators can enable it through the dashboard to apply security measures such as AV-scanning, remote browser isolation, DLP, and HTTP filtering to all proxied HTTP traffic.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
June 24, 2022

Author(s)
Ankur Aggarwal

Word count
725

Hacker News points
1

Language
English


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