Folder security with Akamai

Question

Is it possible to create folder-level security through Akamai? I'd like to secure a folder to a small group of people, but still have it cache in Akamai.

Also, it would be great if I could do this programmatically. I know that you can purge your cache using their services, but I can't find any documentation on anything else that might be available.

Thanks.

Answer 1

you can read here about several ways to implement access control via Akamai, i.e. when requesting /myfolder/mysecuredfolder/* Akamai will then ask to your server if a user can go there. The "programmatic read permission" is then implemented at your origin. Further optimization to minimize the number of times Akamai needs to ask you whether a user can read a specific folder can be achieved combining the above auth on the edge with cookies.