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Prevent a Spoof of an X-Forwarded-For Request with BIG-IP

Last week, we looked at how to do Selective Compression on BIG-IP with a local traffic policy so this week let’s try something security related using the same procedures. You can associate a BIG-I...
Published Oct 24, 2017
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Oct 25, 2017

Interesting security tip,but before applying I think it is important to consider whether the backend apps are using X-Forwarder-For header, in case yes, apps might need reconfiguration to the new value tcl:[IP::client_addr].