Familiarize yourself with these concepts before using the Sandbox API:
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Sandbox: An isolated environment configured for an individual developer that replicates the functionality of an Akamai server. The sandbox communicates with your development origin through a secure, bidirectional connection.
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JSON Web Token: Also referred to as a
JWT, allows the Sandbox client to authenticate your sandbox to the network. Returned in the response object of the Create a sandbox operation. You can also Rotate the JWT to prevent access to the sandbox by anyone who had a previousjwtToken. -
Property: Also referred to as a configuration, provides the main way to control how Akamai servers respond to end-user requests for web content. Properties apply rules to a set of hostnames. Each sandbox contains at least one property.
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Rule tree: Defines which browser requests to process and the behaviors to apply to those requests. Each property features one rule tree. You can apply a specific rule tree to a property within your sandbox.
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Hostname: The portion of the URL end users enter into a browser to access your web content, such as
www.example.comordev.example.com. Within a sandbox, a property is associated with at least one hostname. Akamai uses the hostname to determine which rule tree to apply to the request.