Cloudflare’s OHTTP Gateway Refuses to Decrypt Requests That Arrive Through Cloudflare



Posted on Tue Oct 13 2026 | 12:14 pm


Cloudflare has opened a closed beta of its OHTTP Gateway, a managed endpoint that decrypts Oblivious HTTP requests for an origin. The design choice drawing attention is a refusal: the Gateway will not decrypt requests arriving from Cloudflare Workers or from hosts proxied through Cloudflare, because that would put client identifiers and request contents in the same hands.




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