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Joe_5599_134300's avatar
Joe_5599_134300
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May 03, 2016

How can you block/reject subdirectories only, with an irule?

I want to block only the subdirectory and not the default or parent.   This irule I found on Dev Central and some others I have been testing with will also apply the reject to anything before the ...
application delivery
iRules
security
Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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May 10, 2016

Hi,

if you want to block all sub-directory, you can use irule provided by Yann, but with 

starts_with
instead of 
equals
:

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
    if { [HTTP::path] starts_with "/app/appsite1" } { 
        HTTP::respond 403 content "some html content explaining that the request is not allowed"
    } 
}