Documentation Updates for the Period Ending January 31, 2017
New docs
The following documents are new to the help desk support series as part of our regular documentation update efforts:
- Local variables in VCL
Recently edited and reviewed docs
The following documents were edited by request, as part of the normal doc review cycle, or as a result of updates to how the Fastly web interface and API operate:
- Allowing only TLS connections to your site
- Amazon S3
- API Authentication
- Authenticating URL purge requests via API
- Changing origins based on user location
- Checking multiple backends for a single request
- Conditionally changing a url
- Connecting to origins over TLS
- Controlling caching
- Custom responses that don't hit origin servers
- Enabling API caching
- Enabling cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)
- Enabling HSTS through Fastly
- Failover configuration
- Generating HTTP redirects at the edge
- How we calculate your bill
- Isolating header values without regular expressions
- Google Cloud Storage
- Google Compute Engine
- Load-balancing configuration
- Manipulating the cache key
- Maintaining separate HTTP and HTTPS requests to origin servers
- Making query strings agnostic
- Monitoring account activity with event logs
- Response Cookie handling
- Routing assets to different origins
- Setting Surrogate-Key headers based on a URL
- Setting Surrogate-Key headers for Amazon S3 origins
- Setting up free TLS
- Shielding
- TLS and HTTP/2 VCL variables
- Tracking your origin's name, IP, and port
- Troubleshooting conditions
- Understanding the different PASS action behaviors
- Using conditions
- Using Fastly with apex domains
- Wildcard purges
- Working with services
Updated product catalog names
The following documents were updated to reflect more current names of products offered by Fastly:
- About Fastly's On-the-Fly Packaging service
- Assurance services
- Domain validation for TLS certificates
- Glossary of terms
- Ordering a paid TLS option
- Penetration testing your service behind Fastly
- Professional services
- Related offerings
Updated configuration forms
The order of fields on configuration forms was recently updated for clarity in the web interface. The following documents were revised to reflect those changes:
- Adding or modifying headers on HTTP requests and responses
- Creating and customizing a robots.txt file
- Creating error pages with custom responses
- Enabling API caching
- Enabling automatic gzipping
- Health checks tutorial
- Overriding caching defaults based on a backend response
- Removing headers from backend response
- Responses tutorial
- Setting Content Type based on file extension
Our documentation archive contains PDF snapshots of docs.fastly.com site content as of the above date. Previous updates can be found in the archive as well.
