Dispatcher Filters

[Mahesh_Vikram]

Hi Team,

Instead of white listing whole /content/* in filter rule 1 in dispatcher.any.

many unmapped requests like /content/xyz/example/https://example.com can still land on publisher.

Is there any way to block any unmapped requests like /content/xyz/example/https://example.com.

Thanks,

Viki

[Peter_Puzanovs · Accepted solution]

HI Viki,

Absolutely, as you keep maintaining the application you see what visitors are trying to achieve. The more they try, the better your analysis is. The better results you achieve.

You can use standard Apache rewrite rules to kick out any unwanted visitors, here I'm showing forbidden.
RewriteRule ^content/xyz/example/[^/]+/https://example.com$ - [F]

Or it can come up as a more complicated rule that attempt to block all the cases:

RewriteRule ^content/xyz/example/[^/]+(?!mailto:)(?:(?:http|https|ftp)://)(?:\\S+(?::\\S*)?@)?(?:(?:(?:[1-9]\\d?|1\\d\\d|2[01]\\d|22[0-3])(?:\\.(?:1?\\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])){2}(?:\\.(?:[0-9]\\d?|1\\d\\d|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-4]))|(?:(?:[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff0-9]+-?)*[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff0-9]+)(?:\\.(?:[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff0-9]+-?)*[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff0-9]+)*(?:\\.(?:[a-z\\u00a1-\\uffff]{2,})))|localhost)(?::\\d{2,5})?(?:(/|\\?|#)[^\\s]*)?$ - [F]

However, no matter how hard you try the user will still win and unwanted requests will reach Publisher, if someone really tries.

Regards,

Peter

[arunpatidar]

Agree wit Peter

more info at Redirecting and Remapping with mod_rewrite - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4  about Apache HTTPS redirects