Review available match types for Virtual Waiting Room

Before you start setting up your Virtual Waiting Room rules, review the match types available with this Cloudlet. The action for all rule matches is FIFO (First In First Out). Visitors sent to the waiting room leave the waiting room and enter the origin based on their position in the queue.

Match Type	Matches Based on	Wildcard Support	Case Sensitivity Support	Multiple Value Support
Cookie	a combination of cookie name and cookie value.	✓	✓	✓
Default	any and all incoming requests.
Device Characteristics	a list of available device characteristics.
File extension	the file extensions to match on.	✓	✓	✓
Hostname	the hostnames to match on.			✓
IP address/CIDR list	an IP address or CIDR list. You can also select whether to use the client IP address from the connecting IP address, the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header value, or either option.			✓
Protocol	the protocol to match on. HTTP or HTTPS protocol are the current options, and you can only select one protocol per match.
Proxy	whether the edge platform has determined that the incoming IP address is acting as a proxy.
Query string	the query string values to match on. For example, `name` or `name=value1` or `name=value1 value2`.	✓	✓	✓
Request header	a request header value.	✓	✓
Request method	the method used for the request, like `GET` or `POST`.
URL path	the URL paths to match on. For example: `/clothing/children/shoes/shoe1.jpg`.	✓	✓	✓
User location data	a combination of the following geographic categories: continent, country, and region/state.			✓