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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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Techgeeeg
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Aug 09, 2015

Hi Nathan,

 

I am sorry but i was not able to get your reply... let me put my question again...

 

If I need to block a character set in the file name or for the user-id and password field then in this case the character set in which one

 

  1. URL
  2. Parameters
  3. Headers

of the above three should be addressed and put to allowed or blocked???

 

As an example .... I do understand if i need to allow or block any URL I will fix it in the URL character set.

 

Regards,

 

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nathe
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Aug 09, 2015
Parameters. Add the character as Allow or Disallow. To be more granular you can add an explicit parameter and do the same