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Authenticating URL purge requests via API

Fastly's URL purge feature allows you to purge individual URLs on your website. By default, authentication is not required to purge a URL…

Getting started with purging

Purging is the act of explicitly removing content from a cache, rather than allowing it to expire or be evicted. You may want to purge…

Purging a URL via the Fastly control panel

Fastly provides several levels of cache purging. You can use the Purge URL option to purge a single URL via the Fastly control panel…

Purging all content via the control panel

Fastly provides several levels of cache purging. You can use the Purge all option to purge all content under a service. WARNING: Exercise…

Purging with surrogate keys

Fastly provides several levels of cache purging and choosing the right purging method is essential to keeping your website fast. While…

Fastly provides a Soft Purge feature that allows you to mark content as outdated ( stale ). Stale objects remain available to use in some…

Working with surrogate keys

Surrogate keys are unique identifiers that you assign to groups of content for processing. While there are many use cases for surrogate keys…