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D99's avatar
D99
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Nov 07, 2021

Exclude WAF for a particular URI

Hi Experts,   I have a requirement to exclude WAF for all URI's that include api/mobile. WAF should function normally for other URL/URI's   Any guidelines on how to achieve this via HTTP poli...
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Erwin_de_Brouwer's avatar
Erwin_de_Brouwer
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Nov 07, 2021

Hi Danish,

I think you could achieve your goal with Local Traffic Policy for ASM. This KB article will provide guidance:

https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_asm/manuals/product/asm-implementations-11-5-0/41.html

 

I can imagine a simple policy like this:

 

Match all of the following conditions:

HTTP URI path contains "api/mobile" at request time

Do the following when the traffic is matched:

Disable ASM at request time