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Kapil_Sharma_61
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Dec 12, 2005

post fields and characters

Hi,   I am tring to send a post field to the backend server through BigIP.     The packet looks like (from the client side):   data=6jetmBWyLhqjQlC7UCyyYnO/02u9v/GyOmmWsUA7x8hUa57YDDXKJZ6...
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Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
Dec 12, 2005
BIG-IP will not do any HTML escaping conversions within the payload unless you specifically do so within an iRule.

 

 

How exactly are you posting this information? If BIG-IP is presenting the data with the given HTML escapes then odds are it's your client that is the culprit.

 

 

-Joe