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Cloudflare Developers•16mo ago•
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boborama

Certs on origin servers...

I'm having issues reading https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/ssl-modes/full-strict/ properly. It states:

"Contains a Common Name (CN) or Subject Alternative Name (SAN) that matches the requested or target hostname."

... but I'm not sure if that's matching the CDN->origin request (which would make sense) or the client->CDN request (which I could understand, but I hope that's not the case)

Can anyone shed any light on the right way to interpret that?

I'm having issues with a Full (Strict) SSL connection where the hostname used by the client will absolutely not match anything in the certificate of the origin.

Please/thanks
Cloudflare Docs
Full (strict) | Cloudflare SSL/TLS docs
Similar to Full Mode, but with added validation of the origin server’s certificate, which can be issued by a public CA like Let’s Encrypt or by Cloudflare Origin CA.
Full (strict) | Cloudflare SSL/TLS docs
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