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This static website is hosted using Google Cloud Storage, which is great except
that it doesn't support HTTPS. There's no really good excuse to not support
HTTPS on a website today.
To close that gap, CloudFlare can handle the HTTPS negotiation for you and it
takes no time at all to set up.
<h1>Configure HTTPS in CloudFlare</h1>
This guide assumes CloudFlare is already acting as a CDN for your site.
<ol>
<li>Go to the CloudFlare DNS page and find the A record or CNAME for your FQDN</li>
<li>Ensure that the cloud icon is yellow and not grey, indicating that the CDN
is in use and not bypassing CloudFlare.</li>
<li>Click on the padlock labelled SSL/TLS</li>
<li>Go to the Overview tab</li>
<li>Select Flexible.... Basically that's it, you're good.
HTTPS is now running on your site. CloudFlare is a really great product!
There's more that can be done, though.</li>
<li>Go to the Edge Certificates tab</li>
<li>Set "Always Use HTTPS" to On</li>
</ol>
In my testing the "Always Use HTTPS" redirect change didn't take effect
immediately. After about 15 minutes 301's were coming back as expected.
<pre><code class="language-text">vagrant@dev-env:~/$ curl -i http://kyle.pericak.com
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:52:25 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
Expires: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 01:52:25 GMT
Location: https://kyle.pericak.com/
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 53f18ecdec10b677-YWG
</code></pre>
<a href="https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/204144518">You can find more details and official documentation here.</a>

Kyle Pericak

"It works in my environment"

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