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Rafi1
Cirrus
CirrusHide uri on client side
Hi, Need irule or policy to hide uri from client side Example: User press on icon on the website which point him to -> https://web.com/abc/def I need that the user will see in his browser only ht...
Rafi1 That is definitely possible but keep in mind that while the client sees path "/abc/def" the server will see only "/" which is the root of the website. So if you decide to change all paths that the client sees to "/" just make sure that the path "/" has all the content that you're looking for. Again, this is another reason why obfuscating the path really isn't the path to go down to provide security for your website over something such as a login token or any other security measure you can take over obfuscation.
Paulius
MVP
MVPRafi1 If your intent is to require a user to follow button pushes on a website rather than skipping through by specifying the path themselves then this is not the way to achieve security on your site. If the end user has to check certain boxes or provide some sort of login before they can proceed to a different path you should be able to generate a login token that the F5 can then validate exists before sending them to the path in question. Typically when you have to perform a string map it's because the server is unable be configured to correct the path itself and you then have to make the correction on the F5 but not to obfuscate the path. You will achieve far better security with a token rather than obfuscation.
Rafi1Cirrus
CirrusHi,
I'm talking abot Information site, the inforamtion site located on very importent and sensitive system and they can't be sapareted,
So the ciso demand is to hide the uri's in such case the end users cant see all the path
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] contains "/architecture-info" } {
HTTP::uri [string map -nocase {"/architecture-info" "/hide-uri-test/check/"} [HTTP::uri]]
}
}
This is te resault:
https://admon.siteqa.xxxx.com/architecture-info/#ArchNew3 -> https://admon.siteqa.xxxx.com/hide-uri-test/check/#ArchNew3
The issue now is that, there is no hide-uri-test/check/ uri, so i thinking about ask the site developer to create alias
/architecture-info/ = /hide-uri-test/check/
Do you think it could work?
- Paulius
Rafi1 Even with an alias you would still have an instance where they user can still get to the destination just using a different path. In this instance you are better off obfuscating this on the server side rather than the F5. I would be interested in knowing what CISO has listed as the policy that you are attempting to solve for. I can see stripping local device name or IP address if it's provided in the response to the client but other than that obfuscating the response rather than implementing security features such as login tokens and the like is not a superior security stance.
- Rafi1
Hi Paulius,
OK,
So what if we want change the uri path, just hide itexample:
https://web.com/abc/def -> https://web.com
But the cliet see content of https://web.com/abc/def
Is it possible ?
- Paulius
Rafi1 That is definitely possible but keep in mind that while the client sees path "/abc/def" the server will see only "/" which is the root of the website. So if you decide to change all paths that the client sees to "/" just make sure that the path "/" has all the content that you're looking for. Again, this is another reason why obfuscating the path really isn't the path to go down to provide security for your website over something such as a login token or any other security measure you can take over obfuscation.