Irule advice?

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::query]] contains "fld" } {
        if { ![string is digit [URI::query [HTTP::uri] "fld"]] } {
            log local0. "invalid fld value, rejecting from [IP::client_addr]"
            HTTP::respond 400 content "Bad Request" "Content-Type" "text/html" "Connection" "close"
        }
    }
}

Interesting. That iRule should work as long it's HTTP or you're decrypting HTTPS. Does the iRule event fire at all?

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    log local0. "here: [HTTP::uri]"
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::query]] contains "fld" } {
        if { ![string is digit [URI::query [HTTP::uri] "fld"]] } {
            log local0. "invalid fld value, rejecting from [IP::client_addr]"
            HTTP::respond 400 content "Bad Request" "Content-Type" "text/html" "Connection" "close"
        }
    }
}

Do you get any odd messages in /var/log/ltm?

Try this:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::query]] contains "fld" } {
        if { ![string is digit [URI::query [HTTP::uri] "fld"]] } {
            log local0. "invalid char"
        }
    }
}

Reject works fine. Sorry I wasn't clear...I want the log entry and the reject.

Thanks,

You'd need to decrypt the HTTPS to trigger the HTTP iRule events, and insert HTTP responses. There wouldn't be any way to insert a HTTP 400 response without decrypting.

So I solved the issue first thing this morning. I had left an expermintal Irule in the https version of the VIP that was impacting the test. Thanks again so much for your help on this. That revelation about Irule sytax follwoing HTTP request structure really cleared up a lot of confusion for me and I will continue to study this topic. -JD 

So, still one issue. Can we make this work for POST as well. In this case the FID= is in the body, (x-www-for-urlencoded)

Thanks,

Takes a little more work to get the HTTP payload from a POST request, but logic is mostly the same:

#}
when HTTP_REQUEST { 
    if { [HTTP::method] eq "POST" } { 
        ## Trigger collection for up to 1MB of data 
        if { [HTTP::header exists "Content-Length"] && [HTTP::header "Content-Length"] <= 1048576 }{ 
            set content_length [HTTP::header "Content-Length"] 
        } else { 
            set content_length 1048576 
        } 
        ## Check if $content_length is not set to 0 
        if { $content_length > 0 } { 
            HTTP::collect $content_length 
        } 
    } 
} 
when HTTP_REQUEST_DATA { 
    if { [HTTP::payload] contains "fld=" } {
        foreach x [split [HTTP::payload] "&"] {
            if { $x starts_with "fld=" } {
                if { ![string is digit [lindex [split $x "="] 1]] } {
                    log local0. "invalid fld value, rejecting from [IP::client_addr]"
                    HTTP::respond 400 content "Bad Request" "Content-Type" "text/html" "Connection" "close"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}