Token Auth Parameter

Category: Access

Purpose: Determines whether Token-Based Authentication will expect a token value to be specified as an undefined query stringRefers to data that is appended to a URL (e.g., "?Data=xyz" in the following request: http://www.server.com/index.html?Data=xyz). This information may be used in a variety of ways. Our CDN allows each query string variation of a URL to generate a unique cached asset. Additionally, query string information may be stored in our log files. parameter or a custom query string parameter.

Key information:

• The Name option defines the query string parameter name through which a token may be specified.
• The Name option cannot be set to "ec_token."
• Make sure that the name defined in the Name option only contains valid URL characters.

• The available states for the Enabled option are described below.

  Enabled	Result
  Yes	The Name option defines the name of the query string parameter where Token-Based Authentication will expect a token value. Example: http://cdn.mydomain.com/secure/asset.html?mycustomname=Token
  No	Configures Token-Based Authentication to expect a token value to be included as an undefined query string parameter in the request URL. Example: http://cdn.mydomain.com/secure/asset.html?Token

Default Behavior: Disabled.

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