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by robertlagrant 1661 days ago
Why would you send a CDN any cookies?
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edoceo 1661 days ago
CF as a CDN is for much more than just sending static assets. Folk put whole-ass huge applications behind that infrastructure.
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teddyh 1661 days ago
What do you think a CDN is? How do you think CDNs like Cloudflare works? They act as a complete proxy to all web requests, including cookies.
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robertlagrant 1654 days ago
Truuuue. I suppose I meant cookies are normally an encrypted ID with a user salt. So what would be the harm? But you're right; my actual question was something else.
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