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fred

Ffred It was working last night for https/http, now I just get this: ERR_SSL_UNRECOGN...

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Chaika•5/23/24, 6:37 PM

Are you using Cloudflare's Origin Certificate without enabling proxy on the dns record?

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Chaika•5/23/24, 6:37 PM

otherwise what's the broken url?

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CChaika Are you using Cloudflare's Origin Certificate without enabling proxy on the dns ...

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fredOP•5/23/24, 7:04 PM

Someone told me not to use the origin certificate, URL is https://hook.proximatech.us

fred

Ffred Someone told me not to use the origin certificate, URL is https://hook.proximate...

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:05 PM

That's pointed to Heroku unproxied. Their side/web server is responding with that error, most likely indictating they don't have a valid SSL cert to use. I would follow up on their end/make sure you have everything configured right over there

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CChaika That's pointed to Heroku unproxied. Their side/web server is responding with tha...

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fredOP•5/23/24, 7:06 PM

Do I use the origin certificate for Heroku? When I use the client one its a SAN and it's not secure according to the site

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Ffred Do I use the origin certificate for Heroku? When I use the client one its a SAN ...

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:07 PM

You can use the Origin Certificate as long as you enable Proxy on the record in Cloudflare. Heroku might see it as not secure yea, but as long as you can bypass that and enable proxy you're fine. It's only trusted by the CF Proxy

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:08 PM

I mean the one under the Origin Server tab, not the Client Certificate one, if you're saying that

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CChaika I mean the one under the Origin Server tab, not the Client Certificate one, if y...

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fredOP•5/23/24, 7:08 PM

I mean that too. Will this cover "hook"? I'm pretty sure it would, just wondering.

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Ffred I mean that too. Will this cover "hook"? I'm pretty sure it would, just wonderin...

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:09 PM

the wildcard would yea, or you can specify

hook

hook

specifically, better idea/more secure if you plan on only using that cert for that

Chaika

CChaika the wildcard would yea, or you can specify `hook` specifically, better idea/more...

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fredOP•5/23/24, 7:09 PM

So, this is a Heroku issue?

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Ffred So, this is a Heroku issue?

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:10 PM

no, now that issue is caused by your DNS Record not being proxied in Cloudflare

Chaika

CChaika no, now that issue is caused by your DNS Record not being proxied in Cloudflare

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fredOP•5/23/24, 7:10 PM

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:11 PM

If you go to the top of your screen in Cloudflare, does it say your domain is active?

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fredOP•5/23/24, 7:12 PM

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:13 PM

Did you recently touch your namecheap config?

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:13 PM

I see your domain as using namecheap's DNS, not Cloudflare's

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fredOP•5/23/24, 7:13 PM

Ah, so I have to keep cloudfares DNS records on there?

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:14 PM

In namecheap? Yea, you have to keep Cloudflare as your nameserver and make all dns changes in CF

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CChaika In namecheap? Yea, you have to keep Cloudflare as your nameserver and make all d...

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fredOP•5/23/24, 7:16 PM

Ohh, it all makes sense now. I'll just wait until that changes

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:17 PM

yea that's def part of it, going to have to wait a bit for that change to propagate

Chaika

CChaika yea that's def part of it, going to have to wait a bit for that change to propag...

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fredOP•5/23/24, 7:26 PM

What do you recommend for this? I'm using "hook" for like webhooks and POST

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Ffred What do you recommend for this? I'm using "hook" for like webhooks and POST

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Chaika•5/23/24, 7:27 PM

Full Strict and never anything else

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fredOP•5/23/24, 8:17 PM

Alright it worked, thanks

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car•5/23/24, 11:49 PM

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