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tomh_185559
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Jun 09, 2015

Cookie RFC compliant? Unusual use case

I'm investigating some interesting security events when implementing ASM rules against a VIP. The ASM logs list an event that the request contains "Cookie not RFC-compliant" due to "Invalid character...
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Erik_Novak's avatar
Erik_Novak
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Jun 10, 2015

Try going to Application Security: Headers: Character set and then locate the character / 0x2f (hex). Change the state to allow, and then see if the violation goes away. You should be able to allow / in the value of any header field--I think cookies as well.

 

Erik