Improved global network performance

[Gerry]

I recently published a blog article describing our deployment of Cloudflare to accelerate performance of the Hornbill Platform and Applications. If this is of interest, you can read the article here. 

https://www.hornbill.com/blogpost/hornbill-network-expanding-global-reach/

Gerry

[Martyn Houghton]

@Gerry

Looks like a very positive change, but just one question on the locking down connection via URL. We currently lock down inbound traffic to our corporate Email server for the IMAP mailbox connection based on IP Address. In terms of changing this to URL mapping, should we change this to live.hornbill.com or is there a specific URL we should use for connection coming from the back end server which initiates the connection to the mailbox.

Cheers

Martyn

 

[Alex8000]

Hi Gerry,

Thank you for that blog post, I read it with great interest! 

I have noticed something strange that may be related to this.
If I look at the email hyperlink we send in our emails you can see that the email address has been replaced by an text linking to the following page: 
https://live.hornbill.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection

" The website from which you got to this page is protected by CloudFlare. Email addresses on that page have been hidden in order to keep them from being accessed by malicious bots. You must enable Javascript in your browser in order to decode the e-mail address. "
 

For example, take a look at email 7208 in our instance. See below screenshot of the part of the signature showing the described behaviour.

I presume this is only in the browser and only when Javascript is not enabled in the browser? 
Is this normal behaviour?
 

Thanks,

Alex

 

Edit: for some reason the entire thing turned into a hyperlink. Can't seem to get rid of it. Apologies.

[Gerry]

Martyn, 

Does not effect emails, all the back-end services, API end pointe, mail routing and everything remain unaffected, they all still and will continue to have fixed IP addresses. 

Gerry

[Gerry]

Alex,

Yes I believe that CloudFlare puts these protections in place, it does a lot of things. I will need to have someone look into this but I believe once JavaScript is enabled this should work, but we may have to do something about this, thanks for pointing it out. 

Gerry

[jeffreysmith]

@Alex8000

It does appear to be cloudflare trying to be helpful and rewriting your email addresses to prevent someone scraping them. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170016-What-is-Email-Address-Obfuscation-

This feature has now been switched off.

Many thanks for reporting the issue and I apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

[Gerry]

@Alex8000 as you can see from the post above, this was a setting that we had to change, I had a feeling that might be the case.  Please let us know if this is not resolved. 

Gerry

[Alex8000]

Hi @jeffreysmith, @Gerry,

The email addresses are visible again. Thank you!

Regards,

Alex