Creating Web Controls

Create Web Controls through the Webscale Control Panel

Web Controls enable you to use pre-defined security and performance rule sets. Rule sets minimize the need to discover, define, and maintain a large number of individual rules. Instead, you can create rule sets that match individual request or response conditions and execute a set of actions predefined in the Webscale Control Panel. Based on the conditions, Web Controls automatically execute a set of pre-defined actions after all conditions are met. Through Web Controls, you can create complex sequences of actions.

You can also create sequences of these rules that can accomplish much more complex behavior, such as dynamic allowlisting or rate limiting checkout attempts based on user behavior.

You can create request and response Web Controls which apply rules respectively to requests or responses. Except for accessing the request and response Web Controls pages, the process for creating both are the same. While the request and response Web Controls share many conditions and actions, the available conditions and actions are not the same.

Access the Request web controls page

To access the Request web controls page

  1. Click the three vertical dots menu icon on the upper right corner of the application box and select Edit.

    Select Edit from application box

    -or-

    On your application page, click the Actions menu icon and select Edit.

    Select Edit from Action menu

  2. On the sidebar menu, select Request web controls. The Request web controls page displays.

    Select Request web controls on sidebar menu

Access the Response web controls page

To access the Response web controls pages

  1. Click the three vertical dots menu icon on the upper right corner of the application box and select Edit.

    Select Edit from application box

    -or-

    On your application page, click the Actions menu icon and select Edit.

    Select Edit from Action menu

  2. On the sidebar menu, select Response web controls. The Response web controls page displays.

    Select Web Controls on sidebar menu

Create Web Controls

You do not have to create any conditions for a request or response Web Control. If you do not create any conditions, Webscale will apply all actions to every request or response. If you have one or more conditions, the requests and responses must meet all of the conditions before the actions will execute.

You must create at least one action for a Web Control. If you have more than one action, all of them run for each request or response that meets all of the conditions. For the other actions, the order in which they run is unspecified and not necessarily in the order displayed in the list of actions for the Web Control.

To create a Web Control

  1. On the Request web controls page, click Add a request web control.

    Edit request web controls section

    The sections for configuring request Web Controls display under the Edit request web control heading.

    Edit request web controls section

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    On the Response web controls page, click Add a response web control.

    Click Add a response web control

    The sections for configuring response Web Controls display under the Edit response web control heading.

    Edit request web controls section

  2. Enter a name and optional description for the Web Control.

  3. To add a condition:
    a. Click Add a condition.
    b. In the condition drop-down menu, select a condition.
    c. Specify the condition settings.
    d. Click Done.

  4. To add other conditions, repeat the above procedure for adding a condition, choosing different conditions and entering the settings for each new condition.

  5. To add an action:
    a. Click Add action.
    b. In the Type drop-down menu of the Create action section, select an action.
    c. Specify the action settings.
    d. Click Done.

  6. Click Done.

  7. To add other conditions, repeat the above procedure for adding an action, choosing different actions and entering the settings for each new actions.

  8. On the right side of the Edit request web control header, click Done.

  9. Click Apply.

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Last modified April 10, 2020