Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

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mike_drennen_16
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Jul 22, 2016

Bypassing the Webtop to directly access a Portal Access resource via URI

I am having an issue with accessing a Portal Access resource using a URI. I have set this up for other SAML resources before and it works flawlessly, however, when attempting it with a Portal Access ...
application delivery
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
irules
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mike_drennen_16
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Jul 28, 2016

One bug I have run into this solution is that if there not currently a session for the user, this rule will stop at the webtop. If there is a session (or once a session is created) it works every time.

 

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Michael_Jenkins
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Jul 28, 2016

Yea, I've noticed that in the past. An encoded URL doesn't seem to work properly without an APM session. the way I get around that is by decoding the url (see Kevin's answer to this question for an example), saving it to a session variable and then redirecting the user after they log in (sounds a lot easier than it is :/)