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Dave_Burnett_20's avatar
Dave_Burnett_20
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Nov 10, 2008

How to allow Search Engine Robots/Slurps through ASM?

We have recently installed a pair of F56400s (v9.4.3) in front of our website with ASM in blocking mode.     We are seeing and blocking loads of Non-RFC compliant request violations. Exami...
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Ido_Breger_3805's avatar
Ido_Breger_3805
Historic F5 Account
Jan 28, 2009
I think that the Yahoo robots can be identified by their IP address or range of IPs, (they probably share that info with the webmasters community for business related reporting ) you could route with iRule traffic which is "sourced" from these IPs to a different class which has these checks (or all checks) turned off.

 

I would want to believe that the chance that attack will be coming from Yahoo servers is very low.