CDN & WAF Site Settings Overview
StackPath Sites offer a nearly infinite amount of customization to be used with almost any use-case imaginable. This flexibility comes by opening up a variety of settings that can be configured. This article is designed to show where some of these...
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StackPath Settings: Origin SSL Validation
StackPath sites offer several quickly-configured settings to make your site customization quick and easy. Origin SSL Validation enables SSL validation of the origin server.
This setting can be found under the Site Settings tab in the StackPath con...
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What does it do?
Assets such as an image, CSS file, or JS file are saved with an expiration time, or lifetime, when they are saved on the CDN's cache. After the lifetime expires, the CDN fetches the asset again from the origin server the next time...
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CDN Setting: Query String Caching
StackPath offers custom query string caching, which allows custom query strings to be specified so that separate versions can be cached based on a unique string.
Previously, all query strings would be cached separately, with no customization offer...
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Browser Cache TTL Setting Explained
The Browser Cache Time To Live (TTL) is the amount of time the end-users browser will cache a resource. This resource will be served from browser local cache until the TTL expires, after which the browser will request the asset again.
Overview
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What is compression?
Compression is the process of taking a file and reducing its size. There are many methods through which this is accomplished, but the method utilized by gzip takes advantage of the fact that many files have long sequences of d...
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A Delivery Domain is a non-StackPath host address that content on the CDN can be requested and served from. Simply put, instead of showing the StackPath Edge Address (k7i7r8n7.stackpathcdn.com) in your page source, you can use a vanity URL like (c...
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