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We read the response headers like a browser and go through those that decide how the page behaves. Each comes with what it guards and what happens without it.
Security headers are instructions the site sends to the browser along with the page. They decide what the page may load, who may put it in a frame and how strictly an encrypted connection is enforced. The check shows which of them the address you enter sends and which it does not.
Every finding describes what the header is supposed to do and why — not a ready-made configuration block to copy. The content policy depends on the specific application, and one taken from elsewhere either breaks features or protects against nothing. The request goes out from our server. Besides the address you enter, any redirect and the unencrypted variant on port 80 are read as well; the number of checks is limited.
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Headers are the first layer
The check goes through one address. The site including its application logic, its logins and the settings of the servers can be gone through as part of a security assessment.