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tiny_cloud_ninj
Historic F5 Account
Jan 24, 2018

Side-Band HTTP Payload concern

Hello experts! I am having an issue sending a HTTP Payload to another server. My goal is to intercept a File upload and send it to another Virtual Server (which has a ASM Policy applied). The main ap...
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Kai_Wilke
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Jan 25, 2018

I don't get the point of 

[binary scan SOMEDATA B* somevariables]
followed by a concentation of 
set payload $somevariable$somevariable$b64decodedfile$somevariable
?

Basically this syntax is creating a string containing something like 0101010101yourbinarycontent0101010101, isn't it? Beside of this using concentation on binary data may break any binary representation (a hidden transformation to UTF-8)...

Cheers, Kai