Header alteration. Edge servers can add, delete, or rewrite HTTP request and response headers, such as those containing cookies. This can be used to pass information to origin servers and custom clients, interact with cookies, manage downstream caches, and workaround varying browser behaviors, for instance. EdgeComputing. As noted above, the Akamai platform offers functionality that allows enterprises to run application logic on the edge servers. With metadata configuration, some URLs might be configured to dynamically assemble a page from fragments using Akamai ESI (Edge Side Includes, transform a response using XSLT, or pass a request off to a Java application server on the edge.
