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About Fastly VCL

Fastly VCL is a domain-specific programming language that evolved from the Varnish proxy cache , forming a core part of Fastly's…

Getting started with VCL

Customize your content delivery.

Working with custom VCL

Fastly allows you create your own Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) files with specialized configurations. By uploading custom VCL…

VCL best practices

Best practices in Fastly VCL have changed over time to help address expectation gaps and improve maintainability. This page covers some of…

VCL regular expression cheat sheet

Fastly VCL uses a subset of Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) syntax. This is case sensitive and forward slashes don't need to be…

Clustering in VCL

In normal operation, a request directed to a Fastly POP will be handled by two separate cache servers acting together in a process we call…

Synthetic errors in VCL

If a fatal error occurs in your service while processing your VCL logic, Fastly will generate an error response with a 503 HTTP status…

These articles describe VCL Snippets and how to use them.

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