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How to know page is served from server,dispatcher and CDN

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Hi,

 

How can I get to you know, whether page is served by server, dispatcher or CDN from developer tool?

 

Thanks

Ganesh

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For AEM as a Cloud Service you have a CDN by default (Fastly), so for CDN hits/misses you can check the x-cache header (see [1]).

In case of CDN misses the next layer is the AEM dispatcher, which is fully under your control. IIRC the vhost blueprint adds a "x-vhost" header to the response (mostly for debugging), but it does not indicate if it's a hit in the dispatcher cache.

 

Dispatcher cache misses are handled by AEM itself, so you could add a special header (which is not cached on the dispatcher, in case you have enabled header caching) to indicate that.

 

But in general AEM/dispatcher is not verbose when it comes to indicate if a request was a cache hit or not. Because it could also be misused. But of course you can add all by customization.

 

 

[1] https://developer.fastly.com/reference/http/http-headers/X-Cache/

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Employee Advisor

Are you referring to AEM as a Cloud Service? (In any other setup it's most likely depending on your setup, because both AEM and the Dispatcher do not add special by default to make that visible.)

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For AEM as a Cloud Service you have a CDN by default (Fastly), so for CDN hits/misses you can check the x-cache header (see [1]).

In case of CDN misses the next layer is the AEM dispatcher, which is fully under your control. IIRC the vhost blueprint adds a "x-vhost" header to the response (mostly for debugging), but it does not indicate if it's a hit in the dispatcher cache.

 

Dispatcher cache misses are handled by AEM itself, so you could add a special header (which is not cached on the dispatcher, in case you have enabled header caching) to indicate that.

 

But in general AEM/dispatcher is not verbose when it comes to indicate if a request was a cache hit or not. Because it could also be misused. But of course you can add all by customization.

 

 

[1] https://developer.fastly.com/reference/http/http-headers/X-Cache/

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check for response headers in the network tab, on the document that is served

 

Example :

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