January 2019 Documentation Changes

Recently edited and reviewed docs

The following documentation was edited as part of a normal review cycle or as a result of updates to how the Fastly web interface and API operate:

  • About Edge Dictionaries
  • Cache control tutorial
  • Enabling an IP allowlist for account logins through the web interface
  • HTTP status codes cached by default
  • Image optimization VCL boilerplate
  • Manually creating access control lists
  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  • Private Edge Dictionaries
  • Resource limits
  • Serving images
  • Working with Edge Dictionaries using the API
  • Working with Edge Dictionaries using the web interface
  • Working with Edge Dictionary items using the API

The following API documentation was edited as part of a normal review cycle or as a result of updates to how the Fastly API operates:

  • Amazon S3
  • Clients
  • Content
  • Cloud Files
  • DigitalOcean Spaces
  • FTP
  • GCS Logging
  • Google BigQuery
  • Heroku's Logplex
  • Honeycomb
  • Log Shuttle
  • Logentries
  • Loggly
  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  • OpenStack
  • Papertrail
  • Scalyr
  • Splunk
  • Sumo Logic
  • Syslog
  • WAF Configuration sets
  • WAF Firewall
  • WAF OWASPs
  • WAF Rule sets
  • WAF Rules
  • WAF Rules statuses
  • WAF Tags
  • WAF Update statuses

New and recently updated VCL docs

We've recently updated all existing VCL variable entries to ensure each one listed a type, its accessibility level, and which subroutines it's readable from.

The following documents are new to the VCL documentation:

  • req.body
  • req.body.base64

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

  • Creating custom VCL
  • querystring.regfilter()
  • querystring.regfilter_except()
  • std.strstr()

New and recently updated Japanese translations

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

  • Access Control List (ACL) の作成
  • Fastly Web コントロールパネルについて
  • 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
  • チュートリアル: キャッシュ制御

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