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Hello,

I'm fairly new to ABP and am looking for advice on how to create a condition to allow the text "PingdomPageSpeed".  Currently this is causing mitigation under Bad User Agent.

Thanks!

Tony

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Tony Convertine
Security Engineer
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Rolling Meadows IL
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Hello Tony.

It really depends on where is the text (PingdomPageSpeed) that you want use in ABP policy. If this text is in the request body - then we can't catch it with ABP policy, since ABP analyze headers only. However if the text is located in headers, you could easily create a new condition based on header.

Based on your description, I assume that you want to add an exception for specific user-agent which are classified as Bad User Agents by default condition. To archive this - you can add a new condition to the "Allow" directive like this:

(matches headers.user_agent re"PingdomPageSpeed")

More information:

1. https://docs.imperva.com/bundle/advanced-bot-protection/page/74916.htm
2. https://management.service.imperva.com/abp/help/condition?caid=1877114

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Bartosz Chmielewski
SE
Imperva
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Original Message:
Sent: 8/11/2023 7:30:00 AM
From: Bartosz Chmielewski
Subject: RE: Allow Pingdom

Hello Tony.

It really depends on where is the text (PingdomPageSpeed) that you want use in ABP policy. If this text is in the request body - then we can't catch it with ABP policy, since ABP analyze headers only. However if the text is located in headers, you could easily create a new condition based on header.

Based on your description, I assume that you want to add an exception for specific user-agent which are classified as Bad User Agents by default condition. To archive this - you can add a new condition to the "Allow" directive like this:

(matches headers.user_agent re"PingdomPageSpeed")

More information:

1. https://docs.imperva.com/bundle/advanced-bot-protection/page/74916.htm
2. https://management.service.imperva.com/abp/help/condition?caid=1877114

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Bartosz Chmielewski
SE
Imperva
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