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smalex's avatar
smalex
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Feb 05, 2019

ASM illegal meta character '!'

We are implementing ASM here at the site. We had enabled traffic learning and have got 5000+ suggestions. Majority of those suggestions comes under 'Illegal meta character in URL'. And the illegal c...
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samstep's avatar
samstep
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Feb 10, 2019

"!" is a dangerous character because in UNIX-based system it can indicate that a text file may become executable (google for "shebang" and "hashbang" if you would like to learn more).

 

However "!" is also used by some modern frameworks like Angular so I assume that is why you got very high number of learning suggestions to allow it in URLs