Web Application Firewall profile settings

March 7, 2019

Contributed by: C

Following are the general application firewall profile settings that you must configure on the appliance.

At the command prompt, type:

add appfw profile <name> [-invalidPercentHandling <invalidPercentHandling>] [-checkRequestHeaders ( ON | OFF )] [-URLDecodeRequestCookies ( ON | OFF )] [-optimizePartialReqs ( ON | OFF )]

Example

add appfw profile profile1 [-invalidPercentHandling secure_mode] [-checkRequestHeaders ON] [-URLDecodeRequestCookies OFF] [-optimizePartialReqs OFF]

Where,

invalidPercentHandling. Configure the method that the application firewall uses to handle percent-encoded names and values.

Available settings function as follows: apache_mode - Apache format. asp_mode - Microsoft ASP format. secure_mode - Secure format. Possible values: apache_mode, asp_mode, secure_mode Default value: secure_mode

optimizePartialReqs. Optimize handle of HTTP partial requests with range headers.

Available settings are as follows: ON - Partial requests by the client result in partial requests to the back-end server. OFF - Partial requests by the client are changed to full requests to the back-end server Possible values: ON, OFF Default value: ON

URLDecodeRequestCookies. URL Decode request cookies before subjecting them to SQL and cross-site scripting checks. Possible values: ON, OFF Default value: OFF

optimizePartialReqs. Optimize handle of HTTP partial requests with range headers.

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Web Application Firewall profile settings

March 7, 2019

Contributed by: C

Web Application Firewall profile settings

Web Application Firewall profile settings

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