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Re: HTTPS redirects to HTTP for monitoring


From: Geoffrey Keating <geoffk () geoffk org>
Date: 18 Jan 2015 12:49:10 -0800

chris <tknchris () gmail com> writes:

I have been going through something very interesting recently that relates
to this. We have a customer who google is flagging for "abusive" search
behavior. Because google now forces all search traffic to be SSL, it has
made attempting to track down the supposed "bad traffic"  extremely
difficult. We have contacted google through several channels and no one at
google who we've worked with is able to provide us any factual examples of
what they are seeing and because of the traffic being encrypted all our
usual capture and analysis tools have been fairly useless.

I presume the problem is that Google has flagged the outgoing address
on your NAT, because that's all they can see.

Have you considered deploying IPv6 and giving each customer their own
address?  Then only that customer will be flagged and it'll be between
them and Google.


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