HSTS for Envoy Proxy: Options, Pros, and Cons

If you run Envoy at the edge, HSTS is one of those headers you should set deliberately instead of “getting around to it later”. It is simple on paper: tell browsers to always use HTTPS for your site. In practice, the question is where to inject it in an Envoy-based stack, and that choice affects operability, consistency, and the blast radius of mistakes. For Envoy, there are a few common approaches: ...

July 19, 2026 · 7 min · headertest.com