SiteHost API

/cdn/purge_cache

Purge the cache for a domain. WARNING - The CDN endpoint was deprecated in February 2023 due to changes by our former CDN partner. Existing CDNs will still continue to work and can be managed, but new CDNs cannot be setup..

Form Parameters

Code Samples

var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.open("POST", "https://api.sitehost.nz/1.0/cdn/purge_cache.json", false);

var data = new FormData(); 
data.append("apikey", "your_key_here");
data.append("client_id", "1");
data.append("domain", "example.com");

xmlHttp.send(data);

var response = xmlHttp.responseText;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.sitehost.nz/1.0/cdn/purge_cache.json");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$body = array(
    'apikey' => 'your_key_here',
    'client_id' => 1,
    'domain' => 'example.com',
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

uri = URI.parse("https://api.sitehost.nz/1.0/cdn/purge_cache.json")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)

body = {"apikey" => "your_key_here", 
    "client_id" => 1,
    "domain" => "example.com",
}
request.set_form_data(body)

response = http.request(request)

import requests
from collections import OrderedDict

uri = 'https://api.sitehost.nz/1.0/cdn/purge_cache.json'

# We need ordered dictionary because parameters have to be in the right order.
# Refer to Developer Notes for more information.
body = OrderedDict()

body['apikey'] = 'your_key_here'
body['client_id'] = 1
body['domain'] = 'example.com'

response = requests.post(uri, data=body)

Response