Service Templates

Overview

To get your services up and running quickly, IO River provides multiple templates:

• Generic service with cacheable content
• Saas or web application
• Dynamic non-cacheable content
• VOD streaming
• Live streaming

Select a template when you create the service:

• IO River will add standard behaviors and security settings accordingly.
• You can modify and adjust the service configuration at any time.

Generic service with cacheable content

• Security
  • Allowed methods: PATCH, OPTIONS, DELETE, HEAD, PUT, POST, GET
  • Security engines: disabled
• Edge Cache Behavior
  • Cached methods: GET, HEAD
  • Cache key: URL path, including all URL query parameters, and the HOST header
  • Cache TTL:
    • Response 2xx and 3xx: 1 day
    • Response 4xx and 5xx: 10 seconds
• Browser Cache Behavior
  • Cache: allowed
• Other Behaviors
  • Compression: enabled

Saas or web application

• Security
  • Allowed methods: PATCH, OPTIONS, DELETE, HEAD, PUT, POST, GET
  • Security engines:
    • WAF ML-based engine: enabled, in learning mode
    • WAF rules-based engine: enabled, block attacks with high confidence
• Edge Cache Behavior
  • Cache: disabled
• Browser Cache Behavior
  • Cache: disabled (sets the Cache-Control response header to max-age=0, no-cache, no-store)
• Other Behaviors
  • Compression: enabled

Dynamic non-cacheable content

• Security
  • Allowed methods: PATCH, OPTIONS, DELETE, HEAD, PUT, POST, GET
  • Security engines: disabled
• Edge Cache Behavior
  • Cache: disabled
• Browser Cache Behavior
  • Cache: disabled (sets the Cache-Control response header to max-age=0, no-cache, no-store)
• Other Behaviors
  • Compression: enabled

VOD streaming

• Security
  • Allowed methods: PATCH, OPTIONS, DELETE, HEAD, PUT, POST, GET
  • Security engines: disabled
  • CORS:
    • Set Access-Control-Expose-Headers to allow X-IORiver
• Edge Cache Behavior
  • Cached methods: GET, HEAD
  • Cache key: URL path, including all URL query parameters, and the HOST header
  • Cache TTL:
    • Response 2xx and 3xx: 1 month
    • Response 4xx and 5xx: 10 seconds
• Browser Cache Behavior
  • Cache for manifest files: disabled (sets the Cache-Control response header to max-age=0, no-cache, no-store)
  • Cache for other content: allowed
• Other Behaviors
  • Compression: enabled

Live streaming

• Security
  • Allowed methods: PATCH, OPTIONS, DELETE, HEAD, PUT, POST, GET
  • Security engines: disabled
  • CORS:
    • Set Access-Control-Expose-Headers to allow X-IORiver
• Edge Cache Behavior
  • Cached methods: GET, HEAD
  • Cache key: URL path, including all URL query parameters, and the HOST header
  • Cache TTL:
    • Response 2xx and 3xx:
      • Cache TTL for video/audio segments (*.ts, *.mp4, *.m4s): 30 minutes
      • Cache TTL for manifest files (*.m3u8, *.mpd): 2 seconds
      • Cache TTL for other content: 30 minutes
    • Response 4xx and 5xx: 10 seconds
• Browser Cache Behavior
  • Cache for manifest files: disabled (sets the Cache-Control response header to max-age=0, no-cache, no-store)
  • Cache for other content: allowed
• Other Behaviors
  • Compression: enabled