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OM
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Mar 14, 2019

hide sensitive xml values in logs

hi,

I am trying to mask in the ASM logs some values that are posted via xml structure (see the POST below). Do you have a step by step guidance that could help masking such data ? thanks.

POST /myuri/xml HTTP/1.1
Host: mywebsite.com
User-Agent: myuseragent
Accept: */*
Cookie: JSESSIONID=mycookie
Content-Length: 600
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded





securid-passcode


username

tesuser



passcode

1234123456






3 Replies

  • use sensitive parameter setup with a xml profile.

     

    Your problem here: Your xml has a bad design

     

    one way: setup a namespace for your sensitive 'value' elements and add it as sensitive elements including the namespace in your xml profile. Without namespaces, all 'value' elements are invisible.

     

    another way (better): rename your sensitive elements. password value element --> password

     

    And then add it to sensitive elements in your xml profile.

     

    Choose your URL /myuri/xml, select advanced view, go to header based content tab and connect it by request body handling as default action. Thats it.

     

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    thanks, I'll try the first option as the second one is not possible to achieve (xml structure is embedded in vmware client application).

     

    om