May 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:

  • Changing connection timeouts to your origin
  • Common 503 errors
  • Configuration guidelines for live streaming
  • Connecting to origins
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Google Compute Engine
  • Improving caching performance with large files
  • Setting up single sign-on (SSO)
  • Using Fastly with apex domains
  • Working with services

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:

  • Logshuttle
  • Openstack

New and recently updated VCL docs

The following documents are new to the VCL documentation:

  • accept.charset_lookup()
  • accept.encoding_lookup()
  • accept.language_filter_basic()
  • accept.language_lookup()
  • accept.media_lookup()
  • addr.extract_bits()
  • addr.is_ipv4()
  • addr.is_ipv6()
  • client.ip
  • Content negotiation
  • h2.disable_header_compression()

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:

  • About VCL snippets
  • std.str2ip()

New and recently updated Japanese translations

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

  • よくある 503 エラー
  • ライブストリーミングの設定ガイドライン
  • 大容量ファイルのキャッシュパフォーマンス改善

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.