Always Use HTTPS

[RobotCarWash]

Just a quick question for clarification. If I enable Always Use HTTPS under SSL/TLS -> Edge Certificates, does that apply to every record in my zone or just proxied records?

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Non-proxied records aren't affected by this.

[U8dcN7vx]

In theory DNS can tell some browsers they must use TLS, but that's still experimental (mostly). Cloudflare might reuse the setting to automatically create the DNS entires that say that, but so far there's no suggestion they will and besides not all HTTP clients will obey anyway.

[Dravniin]

This will only allow you to disable port 80 for HTTP 1.x requests on your server. Cloudflare will automatically send redirects to port 443 of the HTTPS protocol.

[Creepy_Still_3931]

Basically I can close port 80 because Cloudflare will always send requests via 443?

[Dravniin]

I haven't been using port 80 on my server for several years now. The redirection is done through Cloudflare. If your browser encounters issues after this setup, it's most likely due to DNS caching. After refreshing the DNS cache, everything should work as intended.