Features

A featureRules Engine: Defines the type of action that will take place when a set of match conditions have been met. defines the type of action that will be applied to the type of request identified by a set of matchRules Engine: Defines a prerequisite that must be met before one or more actions (i.e., features) may be applied to a request. conditions.

The available types of features are:

Access

These features are designed to control access to content.

Name Purpose

Deny Access (403)

Determines whether all requests are rejected with a 403 Forbidden response.

Token Auth

Determines whether Token-Based Authentication will be applied to a request.

Token Auth Denial Code

Determines the type of response that will be returned to a user when a request is denied due to Token-Based Authentication.

Token Auth Ignore URL Case

Determines whether URL comparisons made by Token-Based Authentication will be case-sensitive.

Token Auth Parameter

Determines whether the Token-Based Authentication query string parameter should be renamed.

Caching

These features are designed to customize when and how content is cached.

Name Purpose

Bandwidth Parameters

Determines whether bandwidth throttling parameters (i.e., ec_rate and ec_prebuf) will be active.

Bandwidth Throttling

Throttles the bandwidth for the response provided by our edge servers.

Bypass Cache

Determines whether the request can leverage our caching technology.

Cache-Control Header Treatment

Controls the generation of Cache-Control headers by the edge server when External Max-Age feature is active.

Cache-Key Query String

Determines whether the cache-keyA relative path that uniquely identifies an asset for the purpose of caching. Our edge servers use this relative path when checking for cached content and when caching content. By default, a cache-key will not contain query string parameters. will include or exclude query string parameters associated with a request.

Cache-Key Rewrite

Rewrites the cache-key associated with a request.

Complete Cache Fill (EOL)

Determines what happens when a request results in a partial cache miss on an edge server.

This feature, which is undergoing end-of-life, has been superseded by the Partial Cache Sharing feature. Please update your rules to use the Partial Cache Sharing feature instead of this one.

Compress File Types

Defines the file formats that will be compressed on the server.

Default Internal Max-Age

Determines the default max-age interval for edge server to origin server cache revalidation.

Expires Header Treatment

Controls the generation of Expires headers by an edge server when the External Max-Age feature is active.

External Max-Age

Determines the max-age interval for browser to edge server cache revalidation.

Force Internal Max-Age

Determines the max-age interval for edge server to origin server cache revalidation.

H.264 Support (HTTP Progressive Download)

Determines the types of H.264 file formats that may be used to stream content.

H.264 Support Video Seek Params

Overrides the names assigned to parameters that control seeking through H.264 media when using HTTP Progressive Download.

Honor No-Cache Request

Determines whether an HTTP client's no-cache requests will be forwarded to the origin server.

Ignore Origin No-Cache

Determines whether our CDN will ignore certain directives served from an origin server.

Ignore Unsatisfiable Ranges

Determines the response that will be returned to clients when a request generates a 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable status code.

Internal Max-Stale

Controls how long past the normal expiration time a cached asset may be served from an edge server when the edge server is unable to revalidate the cached asset with the origin server.

Partial Cache Sharing

Determines whether a request can generate partially cached content.

Prevalidate Cached Content

Determines whether cached content will be eligible for early revalidation before its TTL expires.

Refresh Zero-Byte Cache Files

Determines how an HTTP client's request for a 0-byte cache asset is handled by our edge servers.

Set Cacheable Status Codes

Defines the set of status codes that can result in cached content.

Stale Content Delivery on Error

Determines whether expired cached content will be delivered when an error occurs during cache revalidation or when retrieving the requested content from the customer origin server.

Stale While Revalidate

Improves performance by allowing our edge servers to serve stale client to the requester while revalidation takes place.

Comment

The Comment feature allows a note to be added within a rule.

Headers

These features are designed to add, modify, or delete headers from the request or response.

Name Purpose

Age Response Header

Determines whether an Age response header will be included in the response sent to the requester.

Debug Cache Response Headers

Determines whether a response may include debug cache response headers which provide information on the cache policy for the requested asset.

Modify Client Request Header

Overwrites, appends, or deletes a header from a request.

Modify Client Response Header

Overwrites, appends, or deletes a header from a response.

Set Client IP Custom Header

Allows the IP address of the requesting client to be added to the request as a custom request header.

Logs

These features are designed to customize the data stored in raw log files.

Name Purpose

Custom Log Field 1

Determines the format and the content that will be assigned to the custom log field in a raw log file.

Log Query String

Determines whether a query string will be stored along with the URL in access logs.

Mask Client Subnet

Determines whether a client's IP address will be masked for logging and reporting purposes.

Origin

These features are designed to control how the CDN communicates with an origin server.

Name Purpose

Maximum Keep-Alive Requests

Defines the maximum number of requests for a Keep-Alive connection before it is closed.

Proxy Special Headers

Defines the set of CDN-specific request headers that will be forwarded from an edge server to an origin server.

Specialty

These features provide advanced functionality that should only be used by advanced users.

Name Purpose

Cacheable HTTP Methods

Determines the set of additional HTTP methods that can be cached on our network.

Cacheable Request Body Size

Defines the threshold for determining whether a POST response can be cached.

QUIC

Determines whether the client will be informed that our CDN service supports QUIC.

Revalidate While Stale

Determines whether our service will attempt revalidation with your origin server when communication has been temporarily disabled due to repeated origin server availability issues.

Revalidate While Stale Timer

Determines how often the system will attempt to connect to an unavailable origin server.

Streaming Optimization

Tunes your caching configuration to optimize performance for live streams and to reduce the load on the origin server.

User Variable

Assigns a value to a user-defined variable that is passed to your bespoke traffic processing solution.

URL

These features allow a request to be redirected or rewritten to a different URL.

Name Purpose

Follow Redirects

Determines whether requests can be redirected to the hostname defined in the Location header returned by a customer origin server.

URL Redirect

Redirects requests via the Location header.

URL Rewrite

Rewrites the request URL.