question about basics of creating a PROXY to MONITOR network activity

[Paul Bryan]

Cloudflare operates as a reverse proxy in front of your service(s);
clients of your services access them through an endpoint that
Cloudflare stands up. DNS records point to Cloudflare, and TLS
certificates must be provisioned in Cloudflare to match. For all
intents and purposes, you would be outsourcing a part of your service
network infrastructure to Cloudflare.

Paul 

On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 13:35 -0500, Christian Seberino wrote:
> > 
> > a) your reverse proxy must be colocated with the service it fronts
> > on the same machine;
> > b) your network infrastructure transparently encrypts traffic
> > between your proxy and the service; or 
> > c) your proxy must negotiate its own TLS connection(s) with the
> > service.
> > 
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
> Thanks. I'm curious, do you know which of your options CloudFlare
> uses?  It has to stand in between
> you and all the sites you visit while allowing encryption right?
> 
> cs