Testing a GeoLocation request

Question

We are using akamai's X-Akamai-Edgescape in order to detect the territory of the user making the request. If it does not match users home territory, then we deny the request.

Our integration tests are using a locally hosted deployment of akamai proxy. Whenever they add X-Akamai-Edgescape with any custom territory like XX, the proxy overrides the header with its own value of the header.

Eg. From integration tests, we send X-Akamai-Edgescape=region_code=MA,dma=506,pmsa=1120,country_code=DE

and akamai overrides it to X-Akamai-Edgescape:georegion=1,country_code=GB,region_code=EN

Is there a way to disable this overriding behavior on akamai proxy ?

Answer 1

I'm unclear from your question what technology you're using to inject these headers in the client request. Are you running a local test version of the Akamai server, or a local version of the EdgeScape database?

In either case, the headers that get sent to the client or to the origin server can be modified in your delivery configuration. If you're using Property Manager (the default tool for all current delivery products), you can create a new behavior that will pass the header through.

Start by choosing the appropriate header behavior you're trying to control.

Then simply update the behavior to do what you're looking for. In this example, I'm telling the delivery configuration to pass the X-Akamai-EdgeScape header through to the origin.