NimbostratusWeb Scraping Configuration
We would like some clarification on the F5 Web Scraping Application Security that we can't seem to find.
Does this block based on session or IP? If a bot is detected during the grace interval, and say we have the unsafe interval set to 100,000, shouldn't it block that IP for 100,000 requests following the detection?
We are seeing that once the session is closed it allows that IP back through with another grace interval. The scraping we are receiving is intelligent enough to kill the session once it detects we blocked them, and then opens another session. So, in our event logs we see the same IPs listed multiple times back to back where they were blocked for say 11 requests, then just came right back through with another session.
This isn't a desired configuration in our opinion. We were under the impression that if an IP was detected as a bot that it would be blocked for the subsequent unsafe interval we have set.
We have tested this from an external connection by sending requests to get detected and blocked by the device, but once we opened a new session we were free and clear again.
Is there a setting we need to change for our desired effect? We have looked through the documentation and don't see what would possibly need changed.
