Static Web Sites with Azure Blob Storage, Angular and Serverless Azure Functions verses ASP.NET Core Kestrel Web App

Question

I was please to discover that I could create a cheap web site: storage-blob-static-website-host. Where can I learn more about the features of the the web servers that serve azure blobs?

Let's suppose I create such a web site (as described in the link above) with a common standard Angular CDN and make REST calls to an Azure serverless function to manipulate a database.

What features might I be missing that would normally be available with a site hosted by IIS or a ASP.NET Core Web app that uses Kestrel?

For example, would I have the CORs (cross origin request) feature and session cookies (or any kind of cookies)?

If I got a lot of traffic, would the web server provided by blob storage scale out?

Thanks
Siegfried

Answer 1

@Siegfried Heintze
For more information on static websites you can refer to the documentation here. Azure Storage does not yet natively support HTTPS with custom domains; so you will have to use Azure CDN if that is a requirement. There's no way to configure headers as part of the static website feature. However, you can use Azure CDN to add headers and append (or overwrite) header values. CORS is not support for static websites. The website should be able to scale based on the performance of the storage account.

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Answer 2

@Siegfried Heintze My sincere apologies for the delay following up. To add headers and append (or overwrite) header values you can use the CDN rules engine. There is a helpful blog post which walks through setting up a Custom header.

As for implementing session cookies that is not something I have dealt with. However I did find this StackOverflow thread which might be helpful.

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