IIS Request Filtering


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By simonrl - Wed 17 Jan 2018
Hello

We've recently started using Request Filtering in IIS rather than URLScan. Previously I was able to exclude any Kartris sites from using URLScan simply by deleting URLScan from the list of ISAPI filters.

Can't do this with Request Filtering, and have found that Kartris sites don't work properly now with Request Filtering rules in place.

The main issue is the accordion navigation menu won't expand, and tabbed content on product pages won't display.

Does anybody have any ideas please as to which specific settings in Request Filtering will be blocking this?

Thanks,
Simon
By Paul - Wed 17 Jan 2018
Request filtering is on by default in most cases for anything other than (very old) IIS6 installs, and we don't see problems with it, apart from a few isolated cases. Generally the issues are with older CactuShop URLs that may include ampersands within the friendly URL e.g. /bits-&-bobs/. Kartris won't format URLs like that, but CactuShop did and so incoming links often trigger the request filtering.

It sounds more like something in your custom rules? It sounds like parts of the page formatted with scripts or the ajaxtoolkit are not working. What rules do you have in place?
By simonrl - Wed 17 Jan 2018
Thanks for the reply Paul

I think I have it sorted now, the two offending rules were:

1, . in querystring - I was allowing this with an always allow rule for /Image.aspx - but it turns out this needed allowing

2, querystring lengths, I had set these to be quite restrictive, increasing to 500 worked

Thanks,
Simon