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Mike_174431
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Oct 17, 2014

How to pass credentials via scripts

Hello,   We recently rolled out f5 APM in front of our public facing websites. We have several clients that use bots or scripts (.NET c code, actually) to "web scrape" data from our HTML pages. ...
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Stewart
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Oct 17, 2014

Hi Mike,

 

You don't have to have a login page to use APM.

 

One idea would be to use a client certificate check when your clients access your public facing websites. If they have a client certificate, that you issue, they get through and can scrape away.

 

Stewart.