By default, ​Akamai​ honors GET, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests to your origin. Include this behavior to allow HTTP requests using the PUT method.

How it works

When set to Allow, PUT requests pass to the origin, but the content isn’t cached. When you don't specify this behavior at all or set it to Deny, ​Akamai​ edge servers deny all PUT requests to this property with a 501 Not Implemented response.

You need a Content-Length header

PUT requests require a Content-Length header, or they result in a 411 Length required error. The error occurs even if the PUT request doesn’t contain a body. If you enable Allow PUT, include this header with a request and indicate the size of the message body, in bytes. If the PUT request doesn't have a body, the header needs to be set to 0.

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If you don't want to include the Content-Length header with requests, you can add the Allow POST behavior to your rule and enable its Allow POST without Content-Length header option. This also enables this functionality for the Allow PUT behavior.

Features and options

Related topics

See the Allow DELETE, Allow PATCH, Allow POST, Allow OPTIONS behaviors.