Steam download page using Cloudflare CDN

[darksideori]

When I download steam on Firefox, I get Cloudflare, while when i use a different network (hotspot) or Google Chrome and Edge, I get Akamai. Is Cloudflare safe? Does steam support it?

Thanks

[Muppet among Puppets]

Load it from the homepage of steam. Then its fine

I get akamai with ff, though

[darksideori]

I did do that. It could just be a different CDN. The file sizes were the same, it kinda spooked me a bit seeing that it was a different CDN on Chrome and on a different network. When I go to download Uplay or Origin, They both use akamai

[Muppet among Puppets]

Its not malicious. That is what we can conclude.

[darksideori]

Awesome, if steam uses cloudflare and its official, I could honestly care less. Just seemed kinda off

[Muppet among Puppets]

I never saw cloudflare, but it is unlikely that a malicious party uses cloudflare while being in steams servers...... :D

[darksideori]

Yeah, the site was

cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic

Some of the akamai ones were the same, but instead of saying cloudflare it would say akamai

[wuddih]

Valve for Steam has used in the past and still partially today:
- EdgeCast
- Highwinds (Stackpath)
- Akamai
- Level 3 (CenturyLink)

on a global scale and others on a regional scale, especially china.

it was never just akamai.

in jan they didn't use cloudflare. as long as your hosts file is ok and there are no other dns hijacks, nothing much to worry.

[darksideori]

I just installed Windows, and reinstalled it for good luck. It only does this on firefox though, chrome and edge are fine. I downloaded both files and they were both the same size. Some people on reddit told be that it picks which cdn is fastest, so that might be the reason. I installed the chrome version on my computer.

Is there any way I can contact valve and ask them if this is 100% legit? Are you sure that valve has used cloudflare.

After doing some research, and looking at both files, they are the same size, and are signed at the same time (akamai vs cloudflare), and so i conclude this since they are the same file

[Coffee]

I'm guessing steam switched to cloudflare, cause I get it too on chrome. But not the download page. I use scriptsafe and I had to unblock store.cloudflare.steamstatic.com which I never had to do before. Otherwise the store page was broken and I couldn't interact with a lot of stuff

[darksideori]

Interesting, they probably did switch. Both sites worked fine for me, and they were all encrypted so the cloudflare one can't be a spoofed version

[HaneOdori]

This just started happening to me. And my virus protection keeps picking it up as phishing virus. This literally started happening tuesday evening. And this is happening through the steam desktop app for me, not the web browser version

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Hane Odori:

This just started happening to me. And my virus protection keeps picking it up as phishing virus.

What antivirus and what does it say?
As phishing virus is something unheard of.

[Dylan De Taeye]

Originally posted by Hane Odori:

This just started happening to me. And my virus protection keeps picking it up as phishing virus. This literally started happening tuesday evening. And this is happening through the steam desktop app for me, not the web browser version

i have the same with my antivirus. it's panda dome. the same as what u antivirus says. but i can still use steam normal without any problem.

[wuddih]

most AVs are just snakeoil looking for your attention.