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Techgeeeg_28888
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Aug 08, 2015

Character set in ASM

Hi Everyone,   I would like to know the following from experts, under Security> Application Security Tab there are following sub tabs as given below and all of them have "Character set" as sub-tab...
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nathe
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Aug 08, 2015

Techgeeg, they work in the same way but independently of each other. By having them separate allows for more granular positive security. For example you might need to allow the ' character (single quote) for a surname parameter (to allow for names such as O'Neil) or across all parameters, but you might want to block this character in all headers or URLs.

 

Hope this helps,

 

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