Functional Feature

Does Tencent Cloud CDN have the acceleration capability on a global scale?

Tencent Cloud CDN supports global acceleration. Tencent has built nodes for over a decade, and Tencent Cloud CDN offers over 200 overseas nodes in more than 50 countries and regions to help your business go global seamlessly.

Do changes need to be made on origin server for the acceleration service to take effect after CDN connection?

Basically, no change is needed. To achieve a better acceleration result, however, we recommend you assign static and dynamic files to different domain names and only accelerate static resources.

Does Tencent Cloud CDN support cross-region access?

Tencent Cloud CDN does not have any cross-region access restrictions. If cross-region access is needed for your website, simply configure the Access-Control-Allow-Origin field in your website, or configure cross-region headers for your domain name in the CDN. For more information, please see HTTP Header Configuration.

Where can I download the CDN access log?

You can download the CDN access log in the CDN Console. For more information, please see Download Log.

How do I use the self troubleshooting tool?

The self troubleshooting tool provides a range of diagnostic features such as testing DNS, linkage quality, site availability and data access consistency for the access domain name. For more information, please see Self Troubleshooting Tool. The tool is subject to the configuration of the local network environment and do not completely represent the entire network testing results.

What is the difference between the local access diagnostics and the user access diagnostics?

Local access diagnostics: When you find an error with one of your resource accesses, you can initiate a test with the "local access diagnostics".
User access diagnostics: When your users report an error with resource access, you can pinpoint the problem via "user access diagnostics" and troubleshoot the problem following the instruction of Tencent Cloud.

Does CDN support POST requests?

Yes. CDN supports POST requests.

Does CDN support the origin server's cache-control configuration?

By default, Tencent Cloud CDN supports origin server's cache-control configuration.

Does CDN support GZIP compression?

To help you save traffic, CDN compresses files with a size between 256 Byte and 2048 KB and a file name extension of .js, .html, .css, .xml, .json, .shtml, and .htm into Gzip files.

Does CDN acceleration support ports other than 80?

CDN accelerator supports ports 80, 443 and 8080.

What is a CDN intermediate server?

CDN intermediate server is a middle-layer origin-pull server located between the customer server and CDN node. The intermediate server converges the node's origin-pull requests to reduce the origin-pull pressure on your origin server.

How do I obtain the real client IP?

After a request goes through an edge server, a x-forward-for header that includes the client’s real IP information will be added to the request.