Object integrity verification in a content delivery network (CDN)

An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions stored thereon, the program instructions, operable on a computer system in a content delivery network (CDN), said device implementing at least one content delivery (CD) service, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of said computer system causes the one or more processors to carry out the acts of:

• at a client,
• (A) requesting one or more parts of a randomly generated test object comprising a plurality of logical slices;
• (B) in response to said requesting, receiving one or more response objects;
• (C) generating only one or more slices of the plurality of logical slices that are spanned by the one or more parts of said randomly generated test object, and
• (D) comparing the one or more response objects received in (B) to at least some of the one or more slices generated in (C);
• (E) based on said comparing in (D), when said one or more response objects received in (B) do not match said at least some of the one or more slices generated in (C), reporting and logging an error.

A device in a content delivery network (CDN), wherein said CDN delivers content on behalf of at least one content provider, said device comprising a processor and a memory, said device implementing a content delivery (CD) service, the device:

• (A) requesting one or more parts of a randomly generated test object comprising a plurality of logical slices;
• (B) in response to said requesting, receiving one or more response objects;
• (C) generating only one or more slices of the plurality of logical slices that are spanned by the one or more parts of said randomly generated test object, and
• (D) comparing the one or more response objects received in (B) to at least some of the one or more slices generated in (C);
• (E) based on said comparing in (D), when said one or more response objects received in (B) do not match said at least some of the one or more slices generated in (C), reporting and logging an error.