Documentation Updates for the Period Ending February 28, 2017

New docs

The following documents are new to the help desk support series as part of our regular documentation update efforts:

  • Using API tokens

We've created a Security category with new subcategories:

  • Access control lists
  • Monitoring and testing
  • Securing communications

We've moved some of our existing security-specific documents into them.

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:

  • About the web interface controls
  • Accounts and pricing plans
  • Adding CNAME records
  • Amazon S3
  • API authentication
  • Configuration guidelines for live streaming
  • Custom log formats
  • Enabling API caching
  • Fastly's network status
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Google Compute Engine
  • Finding and managing your account info
  • Health checks tutorial
  • Load-balancing configuration
  • Log streaming: Amazon S3
  • Log streaming: Cloud Files
  • Log streaming: Google Cloud Storage
  • Log streaming: Loggly
  • Log streaming: OpenStack
  • Manipulating the cache key
  • Miscellaneous VCL features
  • Monitoring account activity with event logs
  • Paying your bill
  • Shielding
  • Single purges
  • Specifying an override host
  • VCL regular expression cheat sheet
  • Working with services

Updated configuration forms

The Description field on configuration forms was recently changed to Name. The following documents were revised to reflect those changes:

  • Adding or modifying headers on HTTP requests and responses
  • Allowing only TLS connections to your site
  • Amazon S3
  • Authenticating URL purge requests via API
  • Changing origins based on user location
  • Checking multiple backends for a single request
  • Creating and customizing a robots.txt file
  • Creating error pages with custom responses
  • Conditionally changing a URL
  • Controlling caching
  • Connecting to origins over TLS
  • 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
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Google Compute Engine
  • Health checks tutorial
  • Improving caching performance with large files
  • Isolating header values without regular expressions
  • Log streaming: Amazon S3
  • Log streaming: Cloud Files
  • Log streaming: FTP
  • Log streaming: Google Cloud Storage
  • Log streaming: Log Shuttle
  • Log streaming: Logentries
  • Log streaming: Loggy
  • Log streaming: OpenStack
  • Log streaming: Scalyr
  • Log streaming: Sumo Logic
  • Log streaming: Syslog
  • Manipulating the cache key
  • Maintaining separate HTTP and HTTPS requests to origin servers
  • Making query strings agnostic
  • Overriding caching defaults based on a backend response
  • Removing headers from backend response
  • Response Cookie handling
  • Responses tutorial
  • Routing assets to different origins
  • Setting Content Type based on file extension
  • Setting Surrogate-Key headers based on a URL
  • Setting Surrogate-Key headers for Amazon S3 origins
  • Shielding
  • Using conditions
  • Tracking your origin's name, IP, and port
  • Understanding the different PASS action behaviors
  • Wildcard purges

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