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I'm trying to run some acceptance tests against a site that lives behind an akamai CND. To ensure the site is deployed / is running correctly I'd like to bypass akamai.

I've tried the following command to test headers:

curl -H "Pragma: akamai-x-cache-on, akamai-x-cache-remote-on, akamai-x-check-cacheable, akamai-x-get-cache-key, akamai-x-get-extracted-values, akamai-x-get-nonces, akamai-x-get-ssl-client-session-id, akamai-x-get-true-cache-key, akamai-x-serial-no" -IXGET http://www.blah.com/blah.css/

This gives loads of cache information, but does not bypass the cache entirely. For example, if a file is missing but available in the cache it will 200 if it hit's an akamai node with that file.

Does anyone have any experience of this that can help?

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Ian H
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Not sure how Akamai behaves this days, but I know for a fact you can set cookies and make CloudFlare bypass content when the cookie is present.

This means it will be a custom rule you need to create too.

Good luck!

Matias Nombarasco
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The best way to do this is find out what the Origin domain is Akamai accesses for content to cache and base your tests against those origin domains.

Here's a good link that lightly describes how Akamai works:

https://developer.akamai.com/stuff/Overview/Client_Edge_Servers_Origin.html

It might also be important to note that you could flush the cache and test proper caching of live files as testing only the back-end puts complete faith in Akamai not to fail.

I would test both the Origin servers, as well as the cached content for proper operation and consistency.

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