req.url.path

STRING, read-only.

Available inall subroutines.

The full path, without any query parameters.

This variable is updated any time req.url is set.

Example

In the request www.example.com/inner/index.html?a=1&b=2, req.url.path will contain /inner/index.html.

Try it out

req.url.path is used in the following code examples. Examples apply VCL to real-world use cases and can be deployed as they are, or adapted for your own service. See the full list of code examples for more inspiration.

Click RUN on a sample below to provision a Fastly service, execute the code on Fastly, and see how the function behaves.

Capture and aggregate log data from client devices

Collect and aggregate log data submitted from browsers directly into S3 or another log store without having to handle the traffic at your origin.

Remove querystring from static assets

Use the new Sec-Fetch-Dest header or URL patterns to identify assets that should not allow querystrings to be part of the cache key.

Redirect old URLs at the edge

Use a dictionary of URL mappings to serve your redirects at lightning speed.

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