Domain Fronting For Fastly

Author: DoctorEww

Working As of Date (WAD): 06/24/20

CDN Organization: Fastly

Conditions To meet

In order to front the given domain, the following conditions must be met for success:

• Target Domain must exist on Fastly CDN
• Your fronted domain must exist on Fastly CDN
• Both domains must use HTTPS

Execution Steps

Fronted Domain: The allowed domain you are using as a "mask".

Target Domain: The domain you want to access, using the Fronted domain.

1. Follow the steps to setup a resource on Fastly CDN

   1. A account can be made for free. "Free Trial" gives $50 credit.

2. Construct your HTTPS request with the target domain in the Host: header and the fronted domain as the primary domain you wish to access. The following two methods are just two ways to do it:

   1. cURL:

      curl -H "Host: <Target_domain>" https://<Fronted_domain>

   2. Python:

      import urllib.request as request
      
      TARGET = 'target_domain'
      FRONTED = 'https://domain.to.front'
      h = {}
      h['Host'] = TARGET
      h['User-Agent'] = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.47 Safari/537.36"
      req = request.Request(
          FRONTED,
          data=None,
          headers=h
          )
      response = request.urlopen(req, timeout=60)
      
      # Check if we fronted or not, if so, print data
      if response.code == 200:
          for line in response.readlines():
              print(line.decode())
      else:
          print("Failed to front.")

Potential Issues and Errors

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