And I should clarify. Putting "Facebook.Yourdomain.com" on CF for https requests from Facebook, (leaving the rest of the application running not on CF) is probably not a horrible idea. You'd only be putting user experience at risk if a captcha appeared or CF throttled the connection in a strange way, not your entire site.
From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Wirtz Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 12:39 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [google-appengine] Re: calling out the app engine team on ssl for custom domains I have said multiple times our customers don't align at all, and we started CDN in a Box as a result of the needs of clients who were experiencing issues with CF. CiaB doesn't do SSL at all. My concerns aren't speculated. http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab <http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=%22This+restriction +will+disappear+when+no+more+harmful+behavior+is+detected.%22&pbx=1&oq=%22Th is+restriction+will+disappear+when+no+more+harmful+behavior+is+detected.%22& aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=18730l20344l2l20823l> &hl=en&source=hp&q=%22This+restriction+will+disappear+when+no+more+harmful+b ehavior+is+detected.%22&pbx=1&oq=%22This+restriction+will+disappear+when+no+ more+harmful+behavior+is+detected.%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=18730l2 0344l2l20823l3l3l0l0l0l0l91l149l2l2l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&fp=4434126 5e68b94f2&biw=1021&bih=567 Check out all of these sites that CF has presented the Captcha to Google Crawler. Do this twice and all of a sudden that ranking you had for "Ice cream San Francisco" goes away. From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Prince Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 8:16 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Re: calling out the app engine team on ssl for custom domains Take Brandon's comments with a bit of a grain of salt given that he's trying to launch a CloudFlare-like competitor called CDN in a Box. Here's info on CloudFlare and SEO addressing his speculated concerns: http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-seo Short summary: we actually markedly improve most sites' SEO and can help AppEngine users get SSL on a custom domain. As to the topic at hand, a number of users requested that we provide a way to allow SSL on AppEngine. We added a simple feature to support it and have been surprised how many people have taken advantage of it. Implementing SSL in a cloud-based environment is non-trivial and we spent more than a year, had to form several key partnerships, and developed significant technology, in order to get it to work reliably before we launched CloudFlare. If there are further ways we can help the AppEngine developer community, let us know. Matthew Prince CEO, CloudFlare @eastdakota <http://twitter.com/#!/eastdakota> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/_Wllc7sraMMJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.