Documentation Updates for the Period Ending May 31, 2017

New docs

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

  • About VCL Snippets
  • Always-on DDoS mitigation
  • Using dynamic VCL Snippets
  • Using regular VCL Snippets
  • VCL Snippets API

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 conditions
  • About Fastly's Real-Time Log Streaming features
  • About the web interface controls
  • Cryptographic- and hashing-related VCL functions
  • Fastly POP Locations
  • Log streaming: Google Cloud Storage
  • Query string manipulation VCL features
  • Setting up free TLS
  • Single purges
  • TLS and HTTP/2 VCL variables
  • Understanding cache HIT and MISS headers with shielded services
  • Using conditions
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Wildcard purges
  • Working with services

Conditions forms were recently updated to streamline condition creation. The following documents were revised to reflect those changes:

  • Authenticating purge requests
  • Collecting OTFP metrics
  • Creating and customizing a robots.txt file
  • Custom responses that don't hit origin servers
  • Failover configuration
  • Generating HTTP redirects at the edge
  • Overriding caching defaults based on a backend response
  • Setting up image optimization
  • Setting up redundant origin servers

New and recently updated Japanese translations

We've recently added Japanese (日本語) translations for the following service guides:

  • HTTP リクエストとレスポンスのヘッダー追加・変更
  • ドメイン変更前のテスト
  • 登録して最初のサービスを作成する
  • よくある 503 エラー
  • 失効済みコンテンツの配信
  • オリジンシールド
  • ログのフォーマット変更
  • カスタムログ形式
  • Web アプリケーションファイアウォール (WAF)

The following Japanese (日本語) translations were recently updated to reflect changes in their English counterparts:

  • エッジでの HTTP リダイレクトの生成
  • 無料 TLS の設定

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.