Disable HTTP to HTTPS But not work

[user16418]

Hi ,

I was disable HTTP to HTTPS base on develop requirement. the website must be use HTTP and it’s not work, I still always redirect to HTTPS.

But the website need proxy to cloudflare for protection, now, it’s only DNS.

Please help.

Thanks!

[cbrandt]

Hi,

You need to set SSL/TLS to OFF and disable Universal SSL. Please see this answer to a similar topic for details:

DDOS protection for an only HTTP site

tldr; You need to turn off Universal SSL to have an operating http-only website under Cloudflare. When Universal SSL is enabled, Cloudflare will publish a DNS record of type 65, known as HTTP Resource Record. Cloudflare started generating these records for any zone with Universal SSL enabled almost 3 years ago, and most browsers — among them Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox — have recently started to redirect to HTTPS any site for which they see the HTTPS-RR. It works similar to HSTS, except i…

[user16418]

Hey.

Thanks for your answer.

Simply to say, I have a lot of subdomain and I just want 1-2 subdomain to disable SSL.

I don’t want to disable Universal SSL, because some domain also need that, the point is why I need to disable the universal SSL? I just want cloudflare not force direct to HTTPS.

There are 2 function.

1. Disable universal SSL.
2. Disable force HTTP to HTTPS, it’s not conflict the SSL, I can choose HTTP or HTTPS.

It’s not make sense.
No offensive.

[cbrandt]

@user16418

I just want 1-2 subdomain to disable SSL.

Not possible. As explained in the post I linked to, the redirection http > https is forced by Chrome and other browsers based on a DNS record Cloudflare generates for all domains under Universal SSL. This is a zone setting, so if Universal SSL is enabled for a domain, it’s also enabled for all its subdomains.

Cloudflare offers no way to only generate the HTTPS-RR for a hostname, but not for other hostnames within the same zone, but feel free to open a topic under Feedback > Feature Request category.