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GuideAPIRelease notes

Welcome

  • Welcome to Ion

Before you begin

  • Delivery concepts and terms
  • Gather some information
  • Understand the request flow
  • Prepare your environment

Guided configuration

  • Create a new guided Ion property

Custom configuration

  • Create a new custom Ion property
  • Define property hostnames
  • Define property variables (optional)
  • Define property configuration settings
    • Configure the Default Rule
    • Configure the Augment insights rule
    • Configure the Accelerate delivery rule
    • Configure the Offload origin rule
    • Configure the Strengthen security rule
    • Configure the Increase availability rule
    • Configure the Minimize payload rule
  • Finalize your Ion property
  • Test your Ion property
  • Go live with Ion

Tutorials

  • Protect connections with mTLS
  • Improve page load performance
  • Reduce poor script performance
  • Prerender pages with Speculation Rules

Optional features

  • Adaptive Image Compression
  • Auth Token 2.0 Verification
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Client Hints
  • Cloud Interconnects for Google Cloud (GCP)
  • Cloud Wrapper
  • Connect Timeout
  • DataStream
  • Device Characterization
  • Early Data (0-RTT)
  • Early Hints
  • Edge IP Binding
  • EdgeWorkers
  • Enhanced Debug
  • Enhanced Proxy Detection
  • Manual Preconnect (legacy)
  • Manual Server Push (legacy)
  • Mobile Detection and Redirect
  • Origin IP access control list
  • Purge Cache
  • Read Timeout
  • TCP Optimizations

Developer tools

  • Ion APIs
  • Adaptive Acceleration CLI

Resources

  • View Ion traffic reports
  • Ion service-level agreement

Connect Timeout

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Set a connect timeout to determine how long an edge server should try making the initial connection to your origin server.

How to use Connect Timeout

Connect Timeout use isn't unique to Ion. See the Property Manager documentation for full details.

Updated 8 months ago


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    • How to use Connect Timeout
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