Learn more:

• Akamai Cloud Embed

• Download this API’s RAML and JSON schema descriptors.

Overview

As an Akamai cloud partner, you can use the Akamai Cloud Embed (ACE) API to provide Content Delivery Network (CDN) features to your cloud customers, known as “subcustomers.”

You can configure CDN features per domain and give subcustomers the ability to buy, configure, and monitor Akamai’s CDN services directly through your portal.

In most cases, once you create one or more base configurations to support your business needs, you can use this API to support hundreds of thousands of subcustomers per base configuration.

To use this API and its core delivery, download, and video streaming capabilities, you need to add ACE to your contract. To use the acceleration features, you have to sign up for Integrated Cloud Accelerator (ICA).

NOTE: The former name of Akamai Cloud Embed was Wholesale Delivery.

Get started

To configure this API for the first time:

• Contact Akamai to enable ACE for your account. If you want acceleration features, you also need to add ICA.

• If your subcustomers support both HTTP and HTTPS traffic, contact Akamai to create a secure ACE base configuration and provision the necessary certificates. Akamai recommends this configuration for ACE. You can create this configuration yourself, using Property Manager in Akamai Control Center.

• If your subcustomers only support HTTP traffic, contact Akamai to request a multi-domain edge hostname and create an InstantConfig property. A multi-domain edge hostname lets you use a single hostname to represent multiple web assets.

• Create an origin hostname. You need to create a hostname to identify a default origin server that is separate from your subcustomer cloud origins.

• Create an error page. Once you create a hostname to identify a default origin server, configure this default origin to serve an error page when subcustomers don’t configure their domain correctly.

• Determine the method to use to create subcustomer IDs. Each customer in your billing system who uses your ACE implementation needs this ID. You can use any method to generate IDs as long as the IDs are unique. Akamai rolls all traffic for a particular subcustomer into this ID for billing.

• Add the Sub-Customer Enablement behavior to your base configuration via Property Manager in Akamai Control Center. Once added, you need to decide which ACE features you want to offer to your subcustomers, and enable them accordingly. Your decisions determine the structure of your policy JSON going forward. (Your policy JSON is made up of rules that include both match criteria and behaviors for use with that specific subcustomer.)

• If you’re using ICA, make sure you enable the Dynamic Web Content option in the Sub-Customer Enablement behavior.

• If you’re using a non-secure (HTTP), Multi-Domain Edge Hostname, enable the InstantConfig behavior in your base configuration via Property Manager. InstantConfig lets you associate multiple web assets to a single property without adding each hostname to the base configuration.

• Review Get Started with APIs for details on how to set up client tokens to access any Akamai API. These tokens appear as custom hostnames that look like this: https://akzz-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.luna.akamaiapis.net.

• To enable this API, choose the API service named Wholesale Delivery, and set the access level to READ-WRITE.

Interactions with other Akamai APIs

You can use the ACE API in conjunction with the following Akamai APIs:

• Billing Center. This provides access to CSV-based contract usage data for accounts you can access. We provide separate reports for ACE and Integrated Cloud Acceleration (ICA), per billing period. The ACE report lists subcustomer usage (hits and bytes) by geography. The ICA report contains billing data for subcustomers that used ICA, without reference to geography.

• Media Delivery Reports. Use this to review traffic, usage, and quality metrics for all of the products in the Media Delivery suite, including ACE. Currently, this API combines ACE and ICA data: If a given operation served both ACE and ICA traffic during the selected time period, the report doesn’t differentiate between the two.

• Property Manager API. You can use the Property Manager API to create and update a base configuration for ACE. However, you typically only need one base configuration. For ease of use, we recommend that you use Property Manager via Control Center.

Concepts

• Cloud partners. Akamai resellers or partners who provide delivery services to their customers. You, as a user of this API, are a cloud partner, also referred to simply as “partner” throughout this documentation.

• Subcustomers. A cloud partner’s customers are subcustomers. Akamai does not assign individual Content Provider (CP) codes to subcustomers even though their traffic is sent over the Akamai platform. As a Cloud Partner you have access to usage detail reports for each of your subcustomers, based on the subcustomer IDs you provide Akamai.

• Subcustomer ID. This is a unique ID for each subcustomer within your own billing systems. All traffic for a particular subcustomer is rolled up by this ID for billing purposes.

• Base configuration. An Akamai delivery configuration that includes all of the common rules for processing end-user requests. You use the Property Manager API or GUI application to configure properties used for both ACE and ICA.

• Sub-Customer Enablement behavior. In Property Manager, the subCustomer behavior controls which individual ACE and ICA features you can use to handle your subcustomers’ traffic. You can set up this behavior to provide access to all available features, or you can select a subset of features to define different classes of service.

• Content Characteristics-Dynamic Web Content behavior. Include this behavior if you want to enable specific ICA optimizations for your subcustomers.

• InstantConfig behavior. If your subcustomers specifically send HTTP traffic, you have to add the instantConfig behavior to your property. This behavior, also known as Multi-Domain Configuration, lets you to associate multiple web assets to a single property without adding each hostname separately. It applies property settings to all incoming hostnames based on a DNS lookup.

• Policy. Policies determine how Akamai edge servers handle a given subcustomer’s requests. A single policy is bound to a hostname. Your policy JSON is made up of rules, which contain both match criteria and behaviors. When an incoming request meets the match criteria in a rule, it triggers the behaviors listed in that rule. Make rules unique within a policy: they can’t have identical sets of matches. A policy can also contain up to 100 behaviors.

• Policy rules. Rules include both match criteria and behaviors. When an incoming request meets the match criteria in a rule, it triggers the behaviors listed in that rule. Within a rule you can use each match type and each behavior once. Also, no one rule can contain both a whitelist and blacklist behavior of a given type. For example, you can add an IP whitelist and a referrer blacklist to a rule, but you can’t have both an IP whitelist and an IP blacklist in the same rule. ACE applies rules from top to bottom, so ensure you list them from least restrictive to most restrictive. For example, you would list a match on url-wildcard value /* first because it would apply to all requests, where /images/* would only apply to a subset of requests.

• Policy matches. Within a rule, a match defines which subcustomer requests receive the behaviors within the rule. If a match condition for a rule is met, ACE applies the behaviors set in a rule. When constructing the matches array in a rule, the type of data you enter depends on the type of match. For example, if you use the query string match, you have to enter the exact string and keep case sensitivity in mind. If you use the url-scheme match, you enter either HTTP or HTTPS. Within a match, you cannot repeat entries in the value string.

• Policy behaviors. Like Property Manager, the ACE API uses behaviors to encapsulate settings to customize a configuration. Behaviors are a part of a policy’s rules. A rule can have many behaviors or only one. For the ACE API, you group rules into policies. You can have a maximum of 100 behaviors in a subcustomer policy. ACE rejects policies exceeding 100 behaviors upon submission. Within a behavior, you cannot repeat entries in the value string.

Resources

The Akamai Cloud Embed API allows you as our “partner” to manage the Content Delivery Network (CDN) features available to your customers (“subcustomers”) when using Akamai Cloud Embed or Integrated Cloud Acceleration (ICA). With this API, you can create and manage subcustomer policies and IDs.

Follow this basic workflow to create a subcustomer ID and policy:

1. Complete the prerequisites in Get started.

2. If not completed already, use Property Manager in Akamai Control Center to create a “base configuration,” and ensure that you configure the Sub-Customer Enablement behavior to meet your needs. This configuration and behavior determine baseline settings for use. (It serves as a “limiter.” It states what settings can and can’t be used in a policy for all subcustomers assigned to the configuration).

3. Run the Add a new subcustomer operation to apply and register a “subcustomer ID” for each of your customers.

4. Run the Create or update a policy operation for each subcustomer ID you need to add to your base configuration. Set up the policy with individual rules and behaviors that you want applied when ACE receives a request for that subcustomer’s content.

5. Test the end-to-end CDN functionality with each subcustomer. You should use a test domain to verify both the functionality and the configuration.

6. For the final step to go live, change applicable DNS to switch Cloud Partner websites to the Akamai platform.

API summary

Download the RAML descriptors for this API.

List all subcustomers

Returns a list of all subcustomers assigned to the selected base configuration (propertyId).

[
    {
        "customerID": "abc-123",
        "geo": "FR",
        "subPropertyIDs": [
            "www.example.com",
            "www.example.biz",
            "www.example.net",
            "www.example.co.uk"
        ]
    }
]

Get a subcustomer

Returns policy information for the selected subcustomer and activation network.

{
    "geo": "FR"
}

Add a new subcustomer

Add a new subcustomer ID to the selected base configuration (propertyId).

{
    "geo": "FR"
}

{
    "geo": "FR"
}

Remove a subcustomer

Remove a specific subcustomer using its unique subcustomerId

{
    "description": "The subcustomer for property_id '251922' and subcustomer_id '0004-propertyfolks' was successfully deleted.",
    "message": "Successfully deleted"
}

List all sub-properties for a base configuration

Returns all of the domains (subPropertyID values) for subcustomers assigned to a selected base configuration (propertyId) and activation network.

[
    {
        "subPropertyID": "www.example.com",
        "customerID": "abc-123"
    },
    {
        "subPropertyID": "www.example.biz",
        "customerID": "abc-123"
    },
    {
        "subPropertyID": "www.example.com.net",
        "customerID": "def-456"
    },
    {
        "subPropertyID": "www.example.com.co.uk",
        "customerID": "def-456"
    }
]

List all subcustomer domains

Returns domain-specific information for the selected subcustomer domain (subPropertyID) and activation network.

[
    {
        "customerID": "abc-123",
        "geo": "FR",
        "subPropertyIDs": [
            "www.example.com",
            "www.example.biz",
            "www.example.net",
            "www.example.co.uk"
        ]
    }
]

Get a policy

Returns the policy for the selected subcustomer domain, base configuration (propertyId), and activation network.

{
    "rules": [
        {
            "matches": [
                {
                    "name": "http-method",
                    "value": "GET"
                }
            ],
            "behaviors": [
                {
                    "params": {
                        "originBasePath": "/",
                        "cacheKeyValue": "-",
                        "digitalProperty": "www.example.com",
                        "cacheKeyType": "origin",
                        "httpPort": 80,
                        "hostHeaderValue": "-",
                        "originDomain": "www.example.com",
                        "hostHeaderType": "origin"
                    },
                    "name": "origin",
                    "type": "-",
                    "value": "-"
                },
                {
                    "name": "content-refresh",
                    "type": "fixed",
                    "value": "1m"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "activationStatus": "ACTIVE"
}

Create or update a policy

Create a new subcustomer policy or update an existing one.

X-Customer-ID: 100-example.com
X-Custom-Metadata: 100

{
    "rules": [
        {
            "matches": [
                {
                    "name": "http-method",
                    "value": "GET"
                }
            ],
            "behaviors": [
                {
                    "params": {
                        "originBasePath": "/",
                        "cacheKeyValue": "-",
                        "digitalProperty": "www.example.com",
                        "cacheKeyType": "origin",
                        "httpPort": 80,
                        "hostHeaderValue": "-",
                        "originDomain": "www.example.com",
                        "hostHeaderType": "origin"
                    },
                    "name": "origin",
                    "type": "-",
                    "value": "-"
                },
                {
                    "name": "content-refresh",
                    "type": "fixed",
                    "value": "1m"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "activationStatus": "ACTIVE"
}

{
    "rules": [
        {
            "matches": [
                {
                    "name": "http-method",
                    "value": "GET"
                }
            ],
            "behaviors": [
                {
                    "params": {
                        "originBasePath": "/",
                        "cacheKeyValue": "-",
                        "digitalProperty": "www.example.com",
                        "cacheKeyType": "origin",
                        "httpPort": 80,
                        "hostHeaderValue": "-",
                        "originDomain": "www.example.com",
                        "hostHeaderType": "origin"
                    },
                    "name": "origin",
                    "type": "-",
                    "value": "-"
                },
                {
                    "name": "content-refresh",
                    "type": "fixed",
                    "value": "1m"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "activationStatus": "ACTIVE"
}

Delete a policy

Deletes the currently active policy file for the selected subcustomer domain and activation network.

{
    "message": "Successfully deleted",
    "description": "The policy was successfully deleted.",
    "successInstanceId": "a123bcedfg45"
}

Get policy history

Returns policy change information for the selected subcustomer domain, base configuration (propertyId), and activation network.

{
    "policy": {
        "rules": [
            {
                "behaviors": [
                    {
                        "name": "origin",
                        "params": {
                            "cacheKeyType": "digital_property",
                            "cacheKeyValue": "-",
                            "digitalProperty": "sportsguys.wsdtest.akalab.com",
                            "hostHeaderType": "digital_property",
                            "hostHeaderValue": "-",
                            "originDomain": "sportsguys.wsdtest.akalab.com.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com"
                        },
                        "value": "-"
                    }
                ],
                "matches": [
                    {
                        "name": "http-method",
                        "value": "GET"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "behaviors": [
                    {
                        "name": "caching",
                        "type": "fixed",
                        "value": "1h"
                    }
                ],
                "matches": [
                    {
                        "name": "url-extension",
                        "value": "jpg"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "behaviors": [
                    {
                        "name": "caching",
                        "type": "fixed",
                        "value": "1d"
                    }
                ],
                "matches": [
                    {
                        "name": "url-extension",
                        "value": "mp4"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "update_timestamp": 1440722458,
    "version": 1
}

Get latest active policy

Returns the latest activated version of the policy, one with an activationStatus of ACTIVE. If no active version exists, the API returns a 404 error.

{
    "rules": [
        {
            "matches": [
                {
                    "name": "http-method",
                    "value": "GET"
                }
            ],
            "behaviors": [
                {
                    "params": {
                        "originBasePath": "/",
                        "cacheKeyValue": "-",
                        "digitalProperty": "www.example.com",
                        "cacheKeyType": "origin",
                        "httpPort": 80,
                        "hostHeaderValue": "-",
                        "originDomain": "www.example.com",
                        "hostHeaderType": "origin"
                    },
                    "name": "origin",
                    "type": "-",
                    "value": "-"
                },
                {
                    "name": "content-refresh",
                    "type": "fixed",
                    "value": "1m"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "activationStatus": "ACTIVE"
}

Data

This section shows you the data model for the Akamai Cloud Embed API. The main “{Object}” sections reveal an example of the JSON returned for a GET call. The “{Object} Members” sub-sections illustrate elements that are required or optional, based on the call method. For example, “required” indicates the element must be used in the request body for a PUT method call, and it is always included in the response for a GET call.

Download the JSON schemas for this API.

The data schema tables below list membership requirements as follows:

SubCustomer

Allows you to add or update a subcustomer.

Download schema: subcustomerID-add-get.json

Sample GET response:

[
    {
        "customerID": "abc-123",
        "geo": "FR",
        "subPropertyIDs": [
            "www.example.com",
            "www.example.biz",
            "www.example.net",
            "www.example.co.uk"
        ]
    }
]

SubCustomer members

SubProperty

Lists ID, domain, and geographic information for a subproperty, which is the subcustomer’s domain.

Download schema: subproperty-get-all-for-subcustomer.json

Sample GET response:

[
    {
        "subPropertyID": "www.example.com",
        "customerID": "abc-123"
    },
    {
        "subPropertyID": "www.example.biz",
        "customerID": "abc-123"
    },
    {
        "subPropertyID": "www.example.com.net",
        "customerID": "def-456"
    },
    {
        "subPropertyID": "www.example.com.co.uk",
        "customerID": "def-456"
    }
]

SubProperty members

Policy

Encapsulates rules consisting of match criteria and resulting behavior settings Akamai Cloud Embed (ACE) applies for a specific subcustomer.

Download schema: policy-rule.json, policy-rule-history.json

Sample GET response:

{
    "rules": [
        {
            "matches": [
                {
                    "name": "http-method",
                    "value": "GET"
                }
            ],
            "behaviors": [
                {
                    "params": {
                        "originBasePath": "/",
                        "cacheKeyValue": "-",
                        "digitalProperty": "www.example.com",
                        "cacheKeyType": "origin",
                        "httpPort": 80,
                        "hostHeaderValue": "-",
                        "originDomain": "www.example.com",
                        "hostHeaderType": "origin"
                    },
                    "name": "origin",
                    "type": "-",
                    "value": "-"
                },
                {
                    "name": "content-refresh",
                    "type": "fixed",
                    "value": "1m"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "activationStatus": "ACTIVE"
}

Sample GET history response:

{
    "policy": {
        "rules": [
            {
                "behaviors": [
                    {
                        "name": "origin",
                        "params": {
                            "cacheKeyType": "digital_property",
                            "cacheKeyValue": "-",
                            "digitalProperty": "sportsguys.wsdtest.akalab.com",
                            "hostHeaderType": "digital_property",
                            "hostHeaderValue": "-",
                            "originDomain": "sportsguys.wsdtest.akalab.com.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com"
                        },
                        "value": "-"
                    }
                ],
                "matches": [
                    {
                        "name": "http-method",
                        "value": "GET"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "behaviors": [
                    {
                        "name": "caching",
                        "type": "fixed",
                        "value": "1h"
                    }
                ],
                "matches": [
                    {
                        "name": "url-extension",
                        "value": "jpg"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "behaviors": [
                    {
                        "name": "caching",
                        "type": "fixed",
                        "value": "1d"
                    }
                ],
                "matches": [
                    {
                        "name": "url-extension",
                        "value": "mp4"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "update_timestamp": 1440722458,
    "version": 1
}

Policy members

Matches and Behaviors

A match defines the criteria to be met in a request for subcustomer content in order to apply the behaviors set in a rule.

Behaviors determine the settings ACE applies to the delivery of subcustomer content. Akamai Cloud Embed (ACE) applies a behavior’s settings when a request that meets the rule’s match criteria is received for a subcustomer’s content.

client-ip

Include this to match using the IP address assigned to the requesting client. You can specify individual IP addresses, or CIDR blocks (that express a range of addresses).

Download schema: client-ip-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "client-ip",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "ipOrCidrList": [
                    "1.2.3.4",
                    "5.6.7.8",
                    "192.168.100.14/24",
                    "2001:db8:abcd:8000::/50"
                ],
                "source": "both",
                "ipFromHeader": "all"
            },
            "negated": true
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

client-ip members

cookie

Include this match to define specific cookie names for use when matching on an incoming request.

Download schema: cookie-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "cookie",
            "value": "cookie-name cookie-value1 cookie-value2",
            "negated": true
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

cookie members

geography

Use this match to test the requesting client’s location, either by continent, country, region, or designated market area (DMA). Each subcustomer policy can include up to ten geography matches.

Download schema: geography-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "geography",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "continent": [
                    "AS",
                    "EU"
                ],
                "country": [
                    "IN",
                    "CA"
                ],
                "region": [
                    "US:CA",
                    "US:TX"
                ],
                "dma": [
                    500,
                    501,
                    502
                ],
                "source": "both",
                "ipFromHeader": "first"
            }
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

geography members

header

Associated behaviors are applied if a header or header value you specify in this match criteria are included with a request.

Download schema: header-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "header",
            "value": "header-name header-value1 header-value2",
            "negated": false
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

header members

host-name

Include this to match on hostnames listed in the incoming request’s Host header.

Download schema: host-name-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "host-name",
            "value": "host-name1 host-name2 host-name3",
            "negated": false
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

host-name members

http-method

Include this to match on a set of HTTP methods included in a client request.

Download schema: http-method-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "http-method",
            "value": "PUT POST",
            "negated": true
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

http-method members

url-extension

Include this to match on the extension in the incoming request. This match criteria has no effect on URL paths that do not include a file extension.

Download schema: url-extension-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "url-extension",
            "value": "jpg png gif",
            "negated": false
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

url-extension members

url-filename

Include this to match on the filename and extension included in the incoming request.

Download schema: url-filename-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "url-filename",
            "value": "filename.ext myfile.ext",
            "negated": false
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

url-filename members

url-path

Include this to match on the first path component in the incoming request. The first path component is the section directly after the base URL.

Download schema: url-path-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "url-path",
            "value": "new-files old-files",
            "negated": false
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

url-path members

url-querystring

Include this to match on a combination of query string parameters and their values.

Download schema: url-querystring-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "url-querystring",
            "params": [
                {
                    "key": "test*"
                },
                {
                    "key": "version*",
                    "values": "beta* *test*"
                },
                {
                    "key": "mode",
                    "values": "bypass"
                }
            ],
            "negated": false
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

url-querystring members

url-scheme

Include this to match on the protocol or scheme (HTTP or HTTPS) of an incoming request.

Download schema: url-scheme-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "url-scheme",
            "value": "HTTP",
            "negated": true
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

url-scheme members

url-wildcard

Include this match to use wildcards when matching on the incoming request path, minus any query strings. This match type only supports the * wildcard.

Download schema: url-wildcard-match.json

Sample inclusion for this match in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [
        {
            "name": "url-wildcard",
            "value": "/styles/* /images/baseball.png",
            "negated": false
        }
    ],
    "behaviors": []
}

url-wildcard members

access-control

Include this behavior to allow or deny client requests based on what’s specified as the matches criteria.

Download schema: access-control-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "access-control",
            "type": "denied",
            "value": "deny-protocol"
        }
    ]
}

access-control members

cachekey-query-args

Include this behavior to determine how query string arguments within an incoming request should be handled.

Download schema: cachekey-query-args-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "cachekey-query-args",
            "type": "include",
            "value": "product=1"
        }
    ]
}

cachekey-query-args members

caching

Include this behavior to define time-to-live (TTL) cache settings for subcustomers.

Download schema: caching-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "caching",
            "type": "fixed",
            "value": "86400s"
        }
    ]
}

caching members

content-characteristics-dynamic-web-content

Include the content-characteristics behavior and set the type to dynamic-web-content if you’re using Integrated Cloud Acceleration, to use SureRoute to optimize the forward path to the origin server. It controls embedded object pre-fetching, situational image compression, and Real User Monitoring (RUM) capabilities.

Download schema: content-char-dynamic-web-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "content-characteristics",
            "type": "dynamic-web-content",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "mobileImageCompressionEnabled": true,
                "prefetchEnabled": false,
                "realUserMonitoringEnabled": true,
                "sureRouteTestObjectPath": "/sureroute"
            }
        }
    ]
}

content-characteristics-dynamic-web-content members

content-characteristics-large-files

Include the content-characteristics behavior and set the type to large-files to optimize the delivery of large file downloads of up to 1.8 GB. This behavior uses partial object caching with pre-fetched object data.
As a best practice, only use this behavior if you serve large files. Otherwise, the Akamai platform may send additional requests to your origin. When using Large File Optimization, if an object doesn’t meet the minimum size criterion of 10 MB, the platform requests the entire object from the origin.

Download schema: content-char-large-file-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "content-characteristics",
            "type": "large-files",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "objectSize": "10mbto100mb"
            }
        }
    ]
}

content-characteristics-large-files members

content-characteristics-on-demand-streaming

Include the content-characteristics behavior and set the type to streaming-video-on-demand to optimize caching and network timeout conditions for on-demand video content. The Akamai platform examines the URI file extension and path for the media format. It then automatically optimizes cache efficiency, time-to-live, automated failover, downstream Content-Type headers, and network timeout settings.

Download schema: content-char-vod-streaming-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "content-characteristics",
            "type": "streaming-video-on-demand",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "segmentDurationDASH": "3.0",
                "segmentDurationHDS": "4.0",
                "segmentDurationHLS": "7.0",
                "segmentDurationSmooth": "3.0",
                "prefetch": {
                    "originAssist": true
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

content-characteristics-on-demand-streaming members

content-characteristics-live-streaming

Include the content-characteristics behavior and set the type to streaming-video-live to optimize caching and network timeout conditions for live video content. The Akamai platform examines the URI file extension and path for the media format. It then automatically optimizes cache efficiency, time-to-live, automated failover, downstream Content-Type headers, and network timeout settings.

Download schema: content-char-live-streaming-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "content-characteristics",
            "type": "streaming-video-live",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "segmentDurationDASH": "3.0",
                "segmentDurationHDS": "4.0",
                "segmentDurationHLS": "7.0",
                "segmentDurationSmooth": "3.0",
                "prefetch": {
                    "originAssist": true
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

content-characteristics-live-streaming members

content-compression

Include this behavior to provide compression settings. You can enable gzip compression, decompress objects before delivering them to the client, or maintain the origin’s compression settings.

Download schema: content-compression-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "content-refresh",
            "type": "date-time",
            "value": "2018-12-31T11:59:59Z",
            "params": {
                "mustRevalidate": true
            }
        }
    ]
}

content-compression members

content-refresh

Include this behavior to invalidate the CDN cache at an explicit date and time. This behavior uses epoch time to denote when a request should receive a new copy of the object or a newly validated one.

Download schema: content-refresh-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "content-refresh",
            "type": "epoch",
            "value": "1543273814",
            "params": {
                "mustRevalidate": true
            }
        }
    ]
}

content-refresh members

downstream-caching

Include this behavior to control downstream caching of alternate content. Only use this behavior if site failover is enabled for the alternate hostname property. If you do not include this behavior, your subcustomer policy uses the downstream caching settings specified in the alternate hostname property. To enable site failover, use the Subcustomer Enablement behavior in Property Manager.

Download schema: downstream-caching-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "downstream-caching",
            "value": "no-store"
        }
    ]
}

downstream-caching members

geo-blacklist

Include this behavior to block (“blacklist”) access to content based on the continent, country, region/state, or designated marketing area (DMA) of the requesting IP address. (DMA only applies in the United States.) All other geographic areas are allowed.

Download schema: geo-blacklist-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "geo-blacklist",
            "type": "region",
            "value": "US:CA US:OR US:WA US:ID US:AZ US:NV"
        }
    ]
}

geo-blacklist members

geo-whitelist

Include this behavior to allow (“whitelist”) access to content based on the continent, country, region/state, or designated marketing area (DMA) of the requesting IP address. (DMA only applies in the United States.) All other geographic areas are denied.

Download schema: geo-whitelist-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "geo-whitelist",
            "type": "country",
            "value": "US:CA US:OR US:WA US:ID US:AZ US:NV"
        }
    ]
}

geo-whitelist members

ip-blacklist

Include this behavior to block (“blacklist”) access based on the requesting IP address. All other requesting IP addresses are allowed access.

Download schema: ip-blacklist-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "ip-blacklist",
            "value": "10.10.1.100 10.10.2.100 10.10.3.100"
        }
    ]
}

ip-blacklist members

ip-whitelist

Include this behavior to allow (“whitelist”) access based on the requesting IP address. Only the IP addresses listed are allowed access.

Download schema: ip-whitelist-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "ip-whitelist",
            "value": "10.10.1.100 10.10.2.100 10.10.3.100"
        }
    ]
}

ip-whitelist members

modify-outgoing-request-header

Include this behavior to modify the outgoing request headers sent from Akamai to an origin. This also works on request headers sent from a client if the request is sent back to the origin, but not a cache hit.

Download schema: modify-outgoing-request-header-behavior.json

Sample of this behavior in a policy to append the header values, add_this_value and also_add_this_value to the outgoing request header, header1; append add_this_value to the outgoing request header, header2; and set a comma plus a space (,) as the delimiter:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "modify-outgoing-request-header",
            "type": "append",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "headerList": [
                    {
                        "header1": "add_this_value, also_add_this_value"
                    },
                    {
                        "header2": "add_this_value"
                    }
                ],
                "delimiter": ", "
            }
        }
    ]
}

Sample of this behavior in a policy to delete the header values, this_is_an_old_value and this_is_an_older_value from the outgoing request header, header1; delete the empty header, header2; and set the semicolon and a space (;) set as a delimiter:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "modify-outgoing-request-header",
            "type": "delete",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "headerList": [
                    {
                        "header1": "this_is_an_old_value; this_is_an_older_value"
                    },
                    {
                        "header2": ""
                    }
                ],
                "delimiter": "; "
            }
        }
    ]
}

Sample of this behavior in a policy to match the header, header1 and overwrite its header value with replace_with_this_new_header_value (with no delimiter, because an overwrite doesn’t use one):

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "modify-outgoing-request-header",
            "type": "overwrite",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "headerList": [
                    {
                        "header1": "replace_with_this_new_header_value"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

modify-outgoing-request-header members

Usage caveats

Consider the following usage caveats before applying this behavior.

• You can modify a maximum of 15 request headers with this behavior, in a single policy.

• You can use each behavior type (append, delete, and overwrite) once in a single rule.

• You can’t modify the same header more than once in a single policy.

• You can use multiple modify-outgoing-request-header behaviors in the same rule. Ensure they don’t conflict, based on other caveats in this list. (This only applies to this behavior.)

• You can’t use a CRLF or a colon in header names or header values.

• The append and overwrite behavior types create a non-existent header and apply the specified header value.

• The append behavior type won’t append a header value if it already exists in the header. If duplicate instances of a header value are identified, they are left as is because the append type only adds content, it does not remove anything. Use the overwrite type in this scenario to completely replace the header content, and remove duplicate values.

• If multiple occurrences of a single header are included in a request, an append or delete behavior type only applies to the first occurrence. That header is modified and sent to the origin, and all other instances of the same header in the request are ignored. If you don’t include the modify-outgoing-request-header, all occurrences of a request header are sent to the origin.

• The delete behavior type can be used to remove an empty header. (If it has no header value.) Just include the header name, and leave the header value empty (for example, "my_header": "").

• The delete behavior type only removes a value from a header if that value is found. If the value isn’t found, it does nothing.

• If the delete behavior type removes the only header value, older origin servers may experience issues. (This can result in a “null pointer exception” on an older origin server not built to handle empty headers.)

• When delimiter-separating multiple header values in a delete, values are deleted only if they exist in the order specified. For example, if the policy is set to match and delete "header1": "value1,value3", and the actual request header is "header1: value1,value2,value3", nothing is deleted, because the exact match, "value1,value3" wasn’t found. However, if the actual request header is "header1: value2,value1,value3", value1 and value3 are deleted because they match the order set.

• The overwrite behavior type overwrites all header value information for a header name it matches.

• If you don’t include the delimiter object, it defaults to a comma.

• If you use a delimiter to include a list of header values, it must match what’s set for the delimiter member (or a comma if you didn’t set one.) Otherwise, the API matches on exactly what’s set.

• If you include a delimiter when using the overwrite behavior type, Akamai Cloud Embed ignores it.

• Header names are case-insensitive when matching eligible headers, for all behavior types.

• Header values are case-sensitive when matching eligible headers for append and delete. (Header values are replaced for overwrite, so no matching is performed.)

• Since header names are case-insensitive, the header name you set in a policy is what’s used as the header name once modified.

Blacklisted Request Headers

These headers can’t be modified. If the type criteria set matches one of these headers, an error is revealed. Both header names and values are case-insensitive when matching on blacklisted headers. The * represents a wildcard.

• Connection
• Content-Length
• Forwarded
• Host
• TE
• Upgrade
• x-akamai*
• x-cache*

Blacklisted header values

You can’t modify these items in a header value.

• akamai-x-*

Known Issue: Appending multiple header values and duplicate, existing values

When you use the append behavior type and include multiple header values, if a header value already exists, this behavior duplicates it in the resulting header.

For example, assume you have the existing header, "header1": "value1;value2" and you set this behavior to append: "header1": "value1;value3;value4". This results in "header1: value1;value2;value1;value3;value4". This is because the API is trying to match on the full value you’ve specified, "value1;value3;value4" when checking for duplicates.

As a best practice, you should only include multiple header values for an append if you’re sure one of those values doesn’t already exist.

modify-outgoing-request-path

Include this behavior to provide options for altering the request URL before it is sent to origin.

Download schema: modify-outgoing-request-path-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "modify-outgoing-request-path",
            "type": "replace",
            "value": "/dir1/dir2/###/dir4/"
        }
    ]
}

modify-outgoing-request-path members

modify-outgoing-response-header

Include this behavior to modify the outgoing response headers sent from the Edge server back to the client.

Download schema: modify-outgoing-response-header-behavior.json

Sample of this behavior in a policy to append the header value, new_value1 to the outgoing response header, header1; append the values newer_value1 and newest_value1 to the outgoing response header, header2; and set the semicolon (;) as the delimiter:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "modify-outgoing-response-header",
            "type": "append",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "headerList": [
                    {
                        "header1": "new_value1"
                    },
                    {
                        "header2": "newer_value1;newest_value1"
                    }
                ],
                "delimiter": ";"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Sample of this behavior in a policy to delete the empty header, header1; and delete the header values, old_value, older_value, and oldest_value from the outgoing response header, header2 (The behavior only deletes these values if they exist in header2 in the order specified. See Usage caveats):

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "modify-outgoing-response-header",
            "type": "delete",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "headerList": [
                    {
                        "header1": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "header2": "old_value,older_value,oldest_value"
                    }
                ],
                "delimiter": ","
            }
        }
    ]
}

Sample of this behavior in a policy to match the header, header1 and overwrite its header value with use_this_instead (with no delimiter, because an overwrite doesn’t use one):

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "modify-outgoing-response-header",
            "type": "overwrite",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "headerList": [
                    {
                        "header1": "use_this_instead"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

modify-outgoing-response-header members

Usage caveats

Consider the following usage caveats before applying this behavior.

• You can modify a maximum of 15 response headers with this behavior, in a single policy.

• You can use each behavior type (append, delete, and overwrite) once in a single rule.

• You can’t modify the same header more than once in a single policy.

• You can’t use a CRLF or a colon in header names or header values.

• The append and overwrite behavior types create a non-existent header and apply the specified header value.

• The append behavior type won’t append a header value if it already exists in the header. If duplicate instances of a header value are identified, they are left as is because the append type only adds content, it does not remove anything. Use the overwrite type in this scenario to completely replace the header content, and remove duplicate values.

• If multiple occurrences of a single header are included in a request, an append or delete behavior type only applies to the first occurrence. That header is modified and sent to the origin, and all other instances of the same header in the request are ignored. If you don’t include the modify-outgoing-response-header, all occurrences of a request header are sent to the origin.

• The delete behavior type can be used to remove an empty header. (If it has no header value.) Just include the header name, and leave the header value empty (for example, "my_header": "")

• The delete behavior type only removes a value from a header if that value is found. If the value isn’t found, it does nothing.

• If the delete behavior type removes the only header value, older origin servers may experience issues. (This can result in a “null pointer exception” on an older origin server not built to handle empty headers.)

• When delimiter-separating multiple header values in a delete, values are deleted only if they exist in the order specified. For example, if the policy is set to match and delete "header1": "value1,value3", and the actual request header is "header1: value1,value2,value3", nothing is deleted, because the exact match, "value1,value3" wasn’t found. However, if the actual request header is "header1: value2,value1,value3", value1 and value3 are deleted because they match the order set.

• The overwrite behavior overwrites all header value information for a header name it matches.

• If you don’t include the delimiter object, it defaults to a comma.

• If you use a delimiter to include a list of header values, it must match what’s set for the delimiter member (or you must use commas if you didn’t set one.) Otherwise, the API matches on exactly what’s set.

• If you include a delimiter when using the overwrite behavior type, Akamai Cloud Embed ignores it.

• Header names are case-insensitive when matching eligible headers, for all behavior types.

• Header values are case-sensitive when matching eligible headers for append and delete. (Header values are replaced for overwrite, so no matching is performed.)

• Since header names are case-insensitive, the header name you set in a policy is what’s used as the header name once modified.

Blacklisted Response Headers

These headers can’t be modified. If the type criteria set matches one of these headers, an error is revealed. Both header names and values are case-insensitive when matching on blacklisted headers. The * represents a wildcard.

• Age
• Alt-Svc
• Connection
• Content-Encoding
• Content-Length
• Content-Range
• Transfer-Encoding
• Vary
• x-akamai*
• x-cache*

Blacklisted header values

You can’t modify the following items when they occur in a header value.

• akamai-x-*

Known Issue: Appending multiple header values and duplicate, existing values

When you use the append behavior type and include multiple header values, if a header value already exists, this behavior duplicates it in the resulting header.

For example, assume you have the existing header, "header1": "value1;value2" and you set this behavior to append: "header1": "value1;value3;value4". This results in "header1: value1;value2;value1;value3;value4". This is because the API is trying to match on the full value you’ve specified, "value1;value3;value4" when checking for duplicates.

As a best practice, you should only include multiple header values for an append if you’re sure one of those values doesn’t already exist.

origin

Include this behavior to provide origin settings for the specific subcustomer. You need to include: origin DNS hostname, forward host header, and cache key. Optional settings include the origin base path and ports.

Download schema: origin-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "origin",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "digitalProperty": "www.mysite.com",
                "originDomain": "c1234567.cloudprovider.com",
                "cacheKeyType": "origin",
                "cacheKeyValue": "-",
                "hostHeaderType": "digital_property",
                "hostHeaderValue": "-"
            }
        }
    ]
}

origin members

origin-characteristics

Include this behavior if you have Integrated Cloud Acceleration (ICA), to select the type of origin supporting your Akamai Cloud Embed implementation. Use the origin behavior to configure origin settings for your subcustomers at the policy level.

Download schema: origin-characteristics-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "origin-characteristics",
            "value": "azure"
        }
    ]
}

origin-characteristics members

origin-failover

This feature identifies primary origin connection failures based on a type you specify and marks that origin as “bad” after connections to all its IPs fail repeatedly. Rather than issuing a redirect to the end user, requests are failed over to a backup origin you call out. This improves response times, because the end user doesn’t have to wait several seconds for a connect-timeout on the forward request. Additionally, you specify a duration of time the primary origin is marked as bad. During this time, all requests are failed over to your backup origin. This relieves pressure on the primary by reducing the number of connection attempts, at a time when it appears to be having difficulties.

Download schema: origin-failover-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "origin-failover",
            "type": "backupOrigin",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "errorType": "timeout",
                "originConnectionTimeout": "20s",
                "errorCountBeforeFailover": 10,
                "timeoutErrorCacheDuration": "2h",
                "backupOrigin": "backup.myorigin.com",
                "customForwardHost": "somebackuporigin.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

origin-failover members

Usage caveats

Consider the following usage caveats before applying this behavior.

• Failover to your specified backupOrigin happens under two conditions: when a timeout request error occurs; or when an origin receives a request after ACE has marked it as bad,because the errorCountBeforeFailover count has been reached. (Each timeout request error counts toward this total.) Marking an origin as bad stops connection attempts to it while it may be having trouble.

• This behavior has two primary functions: To failover error requests to a backupOrigin you specify, and to mark an origin as “bad” after a certain number of these error requests occur, to stop further requests to a potentially origin when it may be having trouble.

• The Akamai server tries a failed connection one more time before counting it towards your errorCountBeforeFailover.

• The errorCountBeforeFailover member marks an origin as bad for the request that occurs after the quantity you’ve specified, and enacts the timeoutErrorCacheDuration to stop requests from targeting the origin for that length of time. Each subsequent request is then failed over to the backupOrigin. For example, if you set this to six, the seventh failed request triggers the timeoutErrorCacheDuration and the eighth and subsequent requests are failed over to your backupOrigin.

• When used with the Origin behavior in a policy, set its cacheKeyType member to origin. This keeps cache key creation for your primary origin consistent with the Origin Failover behavior cache key creation for your backup origin.

• During failover to your backup origin, the cache key is modified by adding a “b-” in the path. This avoids cache sharing and negative Time to Live (TTL) settings that may use what is in cache instead of accessing your specified backup origin. For example, assume a request is sent to this origin that has been as marked as bad: /prodtest-ff.qa.akamai.com.partnerdomain.net/OD/bird.jpg The request is rerouted to this backup origin and b- is added to the origin hostname: /b-mde-origin.qa.akamai.com.partnerdomain.net/OD/bird.jpg

• Duration values allow for settings in days (d), hours (h), minutes (m), seconds (s), and milliseconds (ms). All default values are applied in seconds.

• If you’ve enabled Tiered Distribution in your base configuration, origin failover is only valid for the top-tier level. (This represents the “last hop” to your origin to request content.)

referer-blacklist

Include this behavior to block (“blacklist”) access based on the Referer request header. This behavior helps verify that the client is a browser that supports RFC 2616, section 14.36, and that the referring HTML page is served by Akamai Cloud Embed from a domain trusted by the content owner.

Download schema: referer-blacklist-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "referer-blacklist",
            "value": "/dir1/dir2/###/dir4/"
        }
    ]
}

referer-blacklist members

referer-whitelist

Include this behavior to allow (“whitelist”) access based on the Referer request header. This behavior helps verify that the client is a browser that supports RFC 2616, section 14.36, and that the referring HTML page is served from a domain trusted by the content owner.

Download schema: referer-whitelist-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "referer-whitelist",
            "value": "www.mysite.com www.myothersite.com*"
        }
    ]
}

referer-whitelist members

site-failover

Include this behavior to define the alternate hostname and path to use when the edge server can’t contact the origin server.

Download schema: site-failover-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "site-failover",
            "type": "serve-301",
            "params": {
                "httpResponseStatus": "404 500:504",
                "alternateHostname": "www.mysite_failover.com",
                "alternatePath": "/failover/mysite",
                "preserveQueryString": true
            }
        }
    ]
}

site-failover members

token-auth

Include this behavior to use tokens to control access to content. You can choose to transmit the token in a cookie, header, or query parameter.

Download schema: token-auth-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "token-auth",
            "value": "-",
            "type": "serve-301",
            "params": {
                "tokenName": "__mytoken__",
                "tokenDelimiter": "~",
                "aclDelimiter": "!",
                "hmacAlgorithm": "SHA256",
                "escapeTokenInputs": true,
                "ignoreQueryString": false,
                "key": "adf123",
                "transitionKey": "bce987",
                "salt": "worldnews175892"
            }
        }
    ]
}

token-auth members

url-redirect

Include this behavior to configure redirect responses for specific client requests, and stop them from contacting the origin.

Download schema: url-redirect-behavior.json

Sample inclusion for this behavior in a PUT policy operation:

{
    "matches": [],
    "behaviors": [
        {
            "name": "url-redirect",
            "type": "301",
            "value": "-",
            "params": {
                "protocol": "request",
                "hostname": "request",
                "staticHostname": "www.somedomain.com",
                "subDomain": "music",
                "path": "request",
                "staticPath": "/abc",
                "pathPrefix": "/pre",
                "pathSuffix": "/su",
                "includeQueryString": true
            }
        }
    ]
}

url-redirect members

Errors

This section shows you how to handle various kinds of errors this API generates, and lists the range of HTTP status codes along with their likely causes.

Error responses

The following example shows an error response for a request processed by this API:

{
    "errorCode" : 403,
    "message" : "Authorization failed",
    "description" : "The user is not authorized by Akamai Cloud Embed to access the policies or subcustomers assigned to the given property id.",
    "helpLink" : "https://developer.akamai.com/api/delivery-policies/errors.html#403",
    "errorInstanceId" : "31f1a7532f",
}

You would expect to see a message like this if the property ID is not valid or is not configured correctly.

HTTP status codes

This section lists the full range of response codes the API may generate.

Last modified: 11/6/2019