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natethegreat_23
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Sep 23, 2016

Can we allow UTF 16 Characters in a UTF 8 policy (F5 ASM v12)?

One of the websites uses the "registered" symbol which is 0xC2 0xAE in UTF-8 and 0x00AE in UTF-16. The question is: our policy is set in UTF-8 and when I look at the allowed meta characters options I...
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nathe
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Sep 23, 2016

natethegreat, i don't believe there is anything you can do now i'm afraid. What i would do is create a copy of the policy, change the application encoding and then use an iRule or local traffic policy to use this policy for this instance, say on a per URL basis perhaps?

 

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