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		lorenzhs on July 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CloudFlare, We Have a Problem GitHub pages does support SSL now, so you can use "Full" SSL mode (not "Full (strict)") with GitHub pages now. We do this for glowing-bear.org, which is just a bunch of static files too.

joepie91_ on July 17, 2016 [–]

Then why would you use CloudFlare at all? You already have TLS.

lorenzhs on July 17, 2016 | [–]

We want to use a custom domain, but TLS with custom domains isn't possible with github pages. https://glowing-bear.github.io/glowing-bear/ isn't exactly nice to type.

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