Request Processing

One of the main jobs of an API gateway is to apply some level of processing to requests; such as transforming the response status, redirecting the request, performing health checks, or manipulating headers. The guides below detail the ways in which a request or response could be altered by Gloo Edge.

• Transformations: Use the Gloo Edge Transformation API to transform requests and responses

• HTTPS Redirect: Route HTTP traffic to HTTPS services

• Host Redirect: Configure Gloo Edge to redirect requests to a route instead of routing to a destination.

• Direct Response Action: Respond with a direct response instead of being proxied to any backend

• Health Checks: Enable a health check plugin to respond with common HTTP codes

• Upstream Health Checks: Automatically monitor the status of Upstreams by configuring health checks for them

• Faults: Inject faults into your services for resilience and chaos testing

• Appending and Removing Request/Response Headers: Append and Remove Headers from Requests and Responses using Route configuration.

• Prefix Rewrite: Prefix-rewriting when routing to upstreams

• Regex Rewrite: Regex-rewriting when routing to upstreams

• Timeouts: Implement upstream timeouts

• Retries: Implement upstream retries when experiencing transient network errors

• Shadowing: Enable traffic shadowing for the route.