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rmd1023's avatar
rmd1023
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Oct 09, 2013

iRule to log a specific field in POST data

I'd like to have an irule log the authentication attempts for a web application I have that takes POST data. How do I pull a specific POST parameter out of the http content?

 

Suppose I have a login page, http://example.com/loginform.html" that will have POST data for "username" and "password". So, right now, I can detect the presence of the 'username' parameter in my submitted form by looking for HTTP::method as "POST" to HTTP::uri "login-form.html" and checking that [HTTP::payload] contains "username". But I'd like to be able to generate a syslog saying "User $username attempted login from [IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]"

 

How do I best extract that "username" value from the payload data for logging without altering the actual transaction at all?

 

Thanks!

 

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  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Oct 09, 2013

    Please try this:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { ( [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] equals "/loginform.html" ) and ( [HTTP::method] equals "POST" ) } {
        HTTP::collect [HTTP::header Content-Length]
    }
}
when HTTP_REQUEST_DATA {
    set username "unknown"
    foreach x [split [string tolower [HTTP::payload]] "&"] {
        if { $x starts_with "username=" } {
            set username [lindex [split $x "="] 1]
        }
    }
    log local0. "User $username attempted login from [IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]"
}