Referring Domain Literal

Category: Request

Purpose: Identifies requests that were referred by a hostname that matches a literalThis type of value does not assign a special meaning to characters. The only exception is % which is used for URL encoding. value.

Key information:

• The hostname associated with the referrer through which content was requested determines whether this condition is met.

• The value associated with this match condition may be defined using any combination of numbers, letters, and/or symbols. All characters, with the exception of the % symbol, will be treated as a fixed value and cannot take on a special meaning.

• The Ignore Case option determines whether a case-sensitive comparison will be performed.
• The Result option determines whether this condition will be met when the referring hostname is a "match" or does not match the specified value.

• Due to the manner in which cache settings are tracked, this match condition is incompatible with the following features:

  • Complete Cache Fill (End-of-Life)
  • Default Internal Max-Age
  • Force Internal Max-Age
  • Ignore Origin No-Cache
  • Internal Max-Stale

Sample Scenario

A sample scenario is provided below.

The following sample configuration assumes that this match condition is satisfied when a request matches the specified value.

Value	Description
www.domain.com	This value will be satisfied when the request was referred by a URL whose hostname is "www.domain.com" (e.g., http://www.domain.com/index.html).

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