Preflighting for flags
Park request, make a different request first, use the response to annotate the real origin request (or make decisions about how to route it).
VCL
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Compute@Edge
Use this solution in your Compute@Edge service:
- Rust
// send a preflight request first let preflight_resp = Request::get("/response-headers?Flags=group-A,new-header,search-enabled") .send(PREFLIGHT_BACKEND)?;
// now send the original req to content backend // add flags header if received in previous response if let Some(flags) = preflight_resp.get_header("flags") { req.set_header("flags", flags); } let beresp = req.send(MAIN_BACKEND)?;
Ok(beresp)