Cassandra Dixon

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  • Cassandra Dixon commented,

    1. Community
    2. VCL
    3. Getting Fastly service ID in VCL

    The variable req.service_id will return the Fastly service_id. For instance, if you are using a custom logging format in your vcl, you can set the call to your format: log {"syslog "}r...

  • Cassandra Dixon commented,

    1. Community
    2. Tuning
    3. Logging Fastly Service ID

    The variable req.serviceid will return the Fastly serviceid for a request. This can be added to your logging format.

  • Cassandra Dixon commented,

    1. Community
    2. Setup
    3. Having issues with redirects w/ Google Cloud Storage & Fastly

    So my question is: is there a way to make the Google Cloud Storage default file redirects to work with an override host? The default behavior for GCS is one hostname to one bucket. If you us...

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  • Cassandra Dixon commented,

    1. Community
    2. General
    3. Conditionally serving different content based on header in initial backend response

    Hi Jonathan, An option that can help with your scenario would be to do a redirect based on the header. This can be done in the app or with custom VCL. For instance, in the app Create a heade...

  • Cassandra Dixon commented,

    1. Community
    2. Setup
    3. HTTP Range: header and 206 Partial Content responses

    Hi Donald, The default behavior for Fastly is to strip the range header from the request to origin. Fastly fetches the full object. If there is a partial content request, we also strip the conten...

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    Custom error page when origin not available

    1. Community
    2. VCL

    Customers often have friendly or prettier 503 error pages to serve for the following scenarios: When origin returns a response status greater than 500 When origin is down (i.e unhealthy, timeout,...

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  • Cassandra Dixon commented,

    1. Community
    2. General
    3. Push Notifications

    Hi Yoni, Fastly has a request collapsing feature enabled by default. Request Collapsing causes simultaneous cache misses within a single Fastly data center to be "collapsed" into a sing...

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    Caching HTTP responses not in Fastly's default list

    1. Community
    2. Setup

    There are certain HTTP responses that are cached by default on Fastly. The flag beresp.cacheable = true is set for these HTTP responses. For other HTTP responses, this flag is set to false. When wa...

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  • Cassandra Dixon commented,

    1. Community
    2. Setup
    3. Cache certain pages on site for X minutes?

    Hi Jason, Our Conditions Tutorial provides a better breakdown of how to configure and use conditions in Fastly. In the your example: What we want to do is cache mydomain.com/en/ for 1 minute, ...

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  • Cassandra Dixon commented,

    1. Community
    2. Setup
    3. Cache certain pages on site for X minutes?

    Q: Is it possible to have a general cache expiry for most pages and a defined expiry only for certain pages? if so how would we go about doing this? Yes, you can create cache setting rules within ...

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