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*Note: these are preliminary notes about using Google Cloud Storage as a CDN service*
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### Preliminaries
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* The documentation home is https://developers.google.com/storage/index.
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* The main tool is `gsutil`.
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* Note: due to rapid development a lot of information on the web uses outdated syntax (but is still useful, e.g., https://gist.github.com/mhulse/4362104).
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### Copying
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Notes:
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* gsutil option: -m multithreaded (higher load+cost, faster)
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* cp options: recursively (-R), compressed (-z), verbose (-v) https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/cp
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* Note: compressed is necessary to get gzipped delivery. Google Cloud storage does not compress on the fly but should decompress on the fly for old browsers that can't accept decompressed files.
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gsutil -m cp -Rzv mathjax gs://mathjax-cdn/
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This also works within GCS, i.e., bucket to bucket. Note that metadata isn't preserved by default (ACLs etc); use `-p` option to preserve them (*warning*: this incurs higher costs).
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`gsutil -m cp -Rp gs://bucket1/file1 gs://bucket2/`
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(You'll still need to set the CORS for each bucket though; see below.)
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### make bucket public
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Notes:
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* should only be needed once
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* https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/acl#set
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gsutil -m acl set -R -a public-read gs://mathjax-cdn
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### set CORS
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Notes:
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* should only be needed once
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* https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/cross-origin
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create XML file with
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<CorsConfig>
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<Cors>
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<Origins>
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<Origin>*</Origin>
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</Origins>
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<Methods>
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<Method>GET</Method>
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<Method>POST</Method>
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<Method>HEAD</Method>
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</Methods>
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<ResponseHeaders>
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<ResponseHeader>*</ResponseHeader>
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</ResponseHeaders>
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<MaxAgeSec>86400</MaxAgeSec>
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</Cors>
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</CorsConfig>
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Save as `cors.xml` and run
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gsutil cors set cors.xml gs://fonts.acmecompany.com/
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### mime-type headers
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Notes:
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* https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/setmeta
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* the `**` wildcard includes subdirectories, https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/addlhelp/WildcardNames
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* EOT and SVG `content-type` headers are detected correctly during upload.
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* WOFF is set to the old mime type `x-font/woff`; that works but we decided to go with the future-proof `font-woff`. Either change it as below or [see advice here](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil/issues/183#issuecomment-35741417).
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* For otf:
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gsutil setmeta -r -h "Content-Type:font/opentype" -h "Cache-Control:public, max-age=3600" gs://mathjax-cdn/mathjax/**.otf
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* For otf:
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gsutil setmeta -r -h "Content-Type:application/font-woff" -h "Cache-Control:public, max-age=3600" gs://mathjax-cdn/mathjax/**.woff
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### caching
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This is a one time task. Proposed caching is 3 months for all but `MathJax.js` which gets 1 week.
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$ gsutil -m setmeta -r -h "Cache-Control:public, max-age=7776000" gs://mathjax-cdn/mathjax/
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$ gsutil -m setmeta -r -h "Cache-Control:public, max-age=3600" gs://mathjax-cdn/mathjax/**/MathJax.js
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This is theoretically risky. Since caching can only be specified after making the file public, it could theoretically happen that MathJax.js is called and cached before the second command runs -- fixing it to a 3 month caching that cannot be undone.
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Well, it didn't happen. So we're good.
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### Logging
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Another one time task. Instructions are at https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/logging
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### CNAME
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To use a CNAME for a bucket, the bucket needs to be named like the CNAME, see https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/reference-uris#cname.
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You also need to verify domain ownership; see https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35179?hl=en.
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## TODO
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* tests.
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* CORS [vital]
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* A simple test: switch mathjax.org over to the origin. user browsershots/browserstack etc to check rendering across IE, FF, Chrome, Safari.
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* mimetype [non-vital]
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* write script to `curl -I` all woff and otf files, compare header.
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* document log analysis |