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Moley: The Tool That Makes Cloudflare Tunnels Finally Usable (and Why We Needed It)
8 min read
The Problem We All Have (But Solve Poorly)
As a DevOps Manager, I spend more time than I should configuring ways for the team to show their development work. Client demos, webhooks for testing, temporary APIs for integrations… we always need to expose localhost to the world.
Traditional options are a pain:
- ngrok: Works, but ugly URLs, limits on free plan, and every restart generates a new URL
- localtunnel: Unstable, URLs that expire, and often blocked by corporate firewalls
- SSH tunneling: Requires your own servers, manual configuration, and networking knowledge
- Manual Cloudflare Tunnels: Powerful but… God, the manual configuration is hellish
And then I discovered Moley.
Cloudflare Innovates Again: Cryptographic Authentication for Bots (The End of Fake User-Agents)
7 min read
The Problem We All Know (But Pretend Doesn’t Exist)
As someone who has managed web infrastructure for decades, I’ve seen too many bots pretending to be what they’re not. User-Agent: “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)” when in reality it’s a Chinese scraper sucking up your content at 3 in the morning.
Traditional methods for identifying legitimate bots have been, let’s be honest, pathetic:
- IP ranges: That change, are shared, or are spoofed
- User-Agent headers: That anyone can forge in one line of code
- Reverse DNS: That works until it doesn’t
Today Cloudflare announced that it’s integrating HTTP Message Signatures directly into its Verified Bots program. And after reading the technical details, I have to admit something: this could definitively change the rules of the game.