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		kardos on May 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It wa... How would that even work? You'd get certificate errors on any TLS site with typo-correcting-dns right?

icebraining on May 5, 2018 [–]

I think they reply with their own HTTP server IP, which then redirects you to the "correct" address.

I assume it breaks if you type a wrong https:// address, but I guess few people do that, they just type the domain and let the site redirect to https:// if needed.

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