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by mrkstu 2853 days ago
Well they do, in point of fact. I was debugging our corporate proxy and tailing the logs for a particular site- when using chrome I matched the site string despite it being directed to bypass proxy- but not going to the site, but to google, despite putting a full url in.

Anyone wanting to truly understand what chrome is doing should run an ssl decrypting proxy on their web traffic for awhile- it is eye opening.
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jrockway 2850 days ago
Perhaps more interesting is that Chrome is happy to send data to google.com without checking the certificate. I'd file a bug.
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mrkstu 2848 days ago
Yep, their not pinning that cert, but I think this is purposeful to continue to function in corporate environments like ours where we deploy our own Cert chain infrastructure. So the OS and transitively the browser is seeing a 'valid' certificate if you're browsing from a company computer.

Firefox on the other hand, you have to import the whole CA chain into the app itself for it to work transparently, since it won't reference the OS cert store.

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