Documentation Updates for the Period Ending October 31, 2018

New docs

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

  • Fastly’s Full-Site Delivery services
  • Fastly’s Streaming Delivery services
  • Honeycomb
  • Live Event Monitoring Service
  • Log streaming: Honeycomb
  • Log streaming: Splunk
  • Protected headers
  • Splunk
  • WAF rule set update for 2018-09-05

In addition to these new guides, we've also created a new TLS subcategory. All TLS guides (in English and Japanese) have been moved to that subcategory to make them easier to find.

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:

  • Fastly's Legacy Full-Site Delivery services
  • Adding or modifying headers on HTTP requests and responses
  • Amazon S3
  • Authenticating before returning a request
  • Authenticating URL purge requests via API
  • Caching configuration best practices
  • Configuration guidelines for live streaming
  • Creating and customizing a robots.txt file
  • Creating error pages with custom responses
  • Custom log formats
  • Custom responses that don't hit origin servers
  • DigitalOcean Spaces
  • Enabling automatic gzipping
  • Enabling cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)
  • Enabling HSTS through Fastly
  • Fastly WAF rule set updates and maintenance
  • Finding and managing your account info
  • Fixing cross-domain errors
  • Forcing a TLS redirect
  • Generating HTTP redirects at the edge
  • Google BigQuery
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • How we calculate your bill
  • Image optimization VCL boilerplate
  • Log streaming: Google BigQuery
  • Log streaming: Loggly
  • Logging purge requests
  • Manipulating the cache key
  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  • Platform TLS
  • Removing headers from backend response
  • Responses tutorial
  • Serving stale content
  • Setting Content Type based on file extension
  • Setting up free TLS
  • Setting up redundant origin servers
  • Setting up remote log streaming
  • Setting Surrogate-Key headers based on a URL
  • Setting Surrogate-Key headers for Amazon S3 origins
  • Specifying an override host
  • Tracking your origin's name, IP, and port
  • Using conditions
  • WAF Rules
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Wildcard purges
  • Working with services

New and recently updated VCL docs

The following documents are new to the VCL documentation:

  • client.socket.pace
  • Edge Side Includes (ESI)
  • prefixof()
  • randombool()
  • randombool_seeded()
  • randomstr()
  • req.esi
  • setcookie.get_value_by_name()
  • suffixof()

The following documents were edited by request, as part of the normal doc review cycle, or as a result of updates to how Fastly's Varnish operates:

  • Creating custom VCL
  • Local variables
  • randomint()
  • randomint_seeded()
  • req.topurl
  • server.region
  • std.integer2time()
  • std.time()
  • subfield()
  • time.add()
  • time.hex_to_time()
  • time.is_after()
  • time.sub()

New and recently updated Japanese translations

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

  • WAF rule set update for 2018-09-05

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

  • Fastly VCL とカスタム VCL の混在とマッチング
  • イメージオプティマイザーの VCL ボイラープレート
  • 失効済みコンテンツの配信
  • カスタムログ形式
  • HTTP リクエストとレスポンスのヘッダー追加・変更
  • エッジでの HTTP リダイレクトの生成
  • Web アプリケーションファイアウォール (WAF)
  • パージ
  • TLS
  • リモートログストリーミングの設定
  • キャッシュ設定ベストプラクティス
  • 失効済みコンテンツの配信
  • 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.

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