HTTP references

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Integrations
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Streaming logs
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Tutorials
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Demos
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Passwordless auth
Fanout chat
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Authentication
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Code Examples
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Geolocation at the edge
Optimize images on the fly
Redirect URLs at the edge
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Fastly respects standards in our implementations of HTTP, but in some cases there are nuances in our implementation, or extensions to the standards. We document those here.

Headers

Fastly interacts with many common web-standard HTTP headers. We also define a number of custom ones.

Response status codes

Status codes indicate the general category of an HTTP response, and some custom codes are defined or reserved by Fastly.

Early hints

An informational status code that prompts the browser to pre-load assets (CSS, JS) while the server prepares the HTML response.

Network services

Security

Compute

Quick start

Building blocks

Integrations

Tutorials

Demos

Use Cases

Code Examples

Starter Kits