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pablocaroochio
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May 20, 2019

Irule to bypass ASM Web Scraping

Hi all, hoping someone may be able to assist we have a web monitoring tool traffic that is being blocked as Web Scraping ( Far too many source IP addresses for whitelisting) is it possible to crea...
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Hamish's avatar
Hamish
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May 21, 2019

Sure.

The ASM docs have an example iRule that disables ASM processing on a whitelisted set of IP addresses (Kept in a DataGroup). It should be relatively easy for you to alter that iRule to disable on cookies instead (Hint. Change the line that says

if {[matchclass [IP::client_addr] equals bypass_asm_class]}{

The ASM docs for ASM::disable are at https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/ASM__disable.html