Living definition
What is Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway?
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies & Content ProvenanceSecurity & Identity
- Kind
- Product or service
- Released
- 2026-10-22
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- product_service-001
Description
What it is and what it is for
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A typical web request carries the sender's IP address and technical fingerprints, so a server can link requests to one user. Privacy-enhancing technologies try to let people use online services while revealing less about who they are. Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) is an internet standard that splits the job between two parties: a relay that sees who is sending a request but only scrambled contents, and a gateway that unscrambles the request but never sees the sender's address. Cloudflare announced Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway, a managed gateway for this standard; the maker says a gateway does the cryptographic work so that app servers can handle these requests as ordinary web requests. OHTTP is specified in RFC 9458, published in January 2024 by authors from Mozilla and Cloudflare.
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