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Setting up Digizuite to leverage CDN requires two steps:

  1. DC 5.4 .0 Step 1: Configuring Azure CDN
  2. DC 5.4 .0 Step 2: Configuring Digizuite DAM to leverage CDN

To understand how it works, it is important to understand what a CDN is and how it works. Please see the documentation above.

Technically, what happens in the Digizuite backend, is that the URLs generated for assets are CDN URLs pointing to the CDN endpoint, rather than the Digizuite. This means that all media content is loaded through a CDN cache.

Understanding the URLs

When configuring CDN, the URLs slightly change. It uses the following scheme:

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  • assetid
  • mediaformatid
  • sha1 hash

Security

 The current implementation does not provide any security between the CDN and the client. What this means, is that once the media is cached in the CDN, the url for it, is publicly available until the CDN cache expires and/or is purged. 

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