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Redirect loop after putting a site behind a proxy, and the certificate was never the problem

Steve32
Moved a site behind a proxy and it started bouncing between itself until the browser gave up. Certificate was valid, the proxy was fine...
Redirect loop after putting a site behind a proxy, and the certificate was never the problem

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The customer says the site is slow and every graph you have says it is not

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