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Sajid
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Apr 19, 2020

How to protect Contact Form from spam?

Hi Guys,   Is there any solution from F5 to protect Contact Form from spam input?   I have tried ASM custom banned words, but it's not working.   any good solution?   Regards, Sajid...
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  • Ivan_Chernenkii's avatar
    Ivan_Chernenkii
    Apr 21, 2020

    You can use several approaches to protect it:

    1. As I said before, you can configure bot profile, to protect you application from bots.
    2. You can define appropriate parameter "name" in policy with some restrictions, like "Email" data type or aplha-numeric data type with maximum length (e.g. 50 characters) or with some regex rule or with some disallowed metacharacters
    3. You can create special valuecontent signature with special rule, which will match bad pattern

     

    Thanks, Ivan

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Ivan_Chernenkii
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Apr 21, 2020

Hello Sajid,

 

Could you provide any example of what you want to protect and from what inputs?

If you want to protect Form from input from bots, then you can use bot profile for you application, which was introduced in ASM starting from v13.0.0.

 

Thanks, Ivan