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Condition
Description
Example
<form>
HTML forms are used to pass data to a server
Example “form doesn’t have length 0”
GEO Location
This compares the source IP address to the ISO 3166 Country Code
GEO Location does equal GB OR GEO Location does equal Germany
Host
This is the host extracted from the URL
www.mywebsite.com or 192.168.1.1
Language
This is the Language extracted from the language HTTP header
This condition will produce a dropdown with a list of Languages
Method
This is a drop down of HTTP methods
This is a drop down that includes GET, POST etc
Origin IP
If upstream proxy supports X-Forwarded-for (XFF) it will use the true Origin address
Client IP. Can also use multiple IP’s or subnets. 
10\.1\.2\.* is 10.1.2.0 /24 subnet
10\.1\.2\.3|10\.1\.2\.4 Use | for multiple IP’s
Path
This is the path of the website
/mywebsite/index.asp
POST
POST request method
Check data being uploaded to a website
Query
This is the name and Value of a Query as such it can either accept the query name or a value also
“Best=jetNEXUS” Where the Match is Best and the Value is edgeNEXUS
Query String
The whole query string after the ? character
 
Request Cookie
This is the name of a cookie requested by a  client
MS-WSMAN=afYfn1CDqqCDqUD::
Request Header
This can be any HTTP Header
Referrer, User-Agent, From, Date
Request Version
This is the HTTP version
HTTP/1.0 OR HTTP/1.1
Response Body
A user defined string in the response body
Server UP
Response Code
The HTTP code for the response
200 OK, 304 Not Modified
Response Cookie
This is the name of a cookie sent by the server
MS-WSMAN=afYfn1CDqqCDqUD::
Response Header
This can be any HTTP Header
Referrer, User-Agent, From, Date
Response Version
The HTTP version sent by the server
HTTP/1.0 OR HTTP/1.1
Source IP
This is either the origin IP, proxy server IP or some other aggregated IP address
Client
IP, Proxy IP, Firewall IP. Can also use multiple IP’s and subnets. You
must escape the dots as these are RegEX. Example 10\.1\.2\.3 is 10.1.2.3
Match
Description
Example
Accept
Content-Types that are acceptable
Accept: text/plain
Accept-Encoding
Acceptable encodings
Accept-Encoding: <compress | gzip | deflate | sdch | identity>
Accept-Language
Acceptable languages for response
Accept-Language: en-US
Accept-Ranges
What partial content range types this server supports
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Authorization
Authentication credentials for HTTP authentication
Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
Charge-To
Contains account information for the costs of the application of the method requested
 
Content-Encoding
The type of encoding used on the data.
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length
The length of the response body in Octets (8-bit bytes)
Content-Length: 348
Content-Type
The mime type of the body of the request (used with POST and PUT requests)
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie
A HTTP cookie previously sent by the server with Set-Cookie (below)
Cookie: $Version=1; Skin=new;
Date
Date and time at message was originated
Date = “Date” “:” HTTP-date
ETag
An identifier for a specific version of a resource, often a message digest
ETag: “aed6bdb8e090cd1:0”
From
The email address of the user making the request
From: user@example.com
If-Modified-Since
Allows a 304 Not Modified to be returned if the content is unchanged
If-Modified-Since: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 19:43:31 GMT
Last-Modified
The last modified date for the requested object, in RFC 2822 format
Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 12:45:26 GMT
Pragma
The Implementation-specific headers may have various effects anywhere along the request-response chain.
Pragma: no-cache
Referrer
This is the address of the previous web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed
Referrer: HTTP://www.edgenexus.io
Server
A name for the server
Server: Apache/2.4.1 (Unix)
Set-Cookie
A HTTP cookie
Set-Cookie: UserID=JohnDoe; Max-Age=3600; Version=1
User-Agent
The user agent string of the user agent
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
Vary
Tells downstream proxies how to match future request headers to decide
whether the cached response can be used rather than requesting a fresh
one from the origin server
Vary: User-Agent
X-Powered-By
Specifies the technology (e.g. ASP.NET, PHP, JBoss) supporting the web application
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.0
Check
Description
Example
Exist
This does not care for the detail of the condition just that it does/doesn’t exist
Host — Does — Exist
Start
The string starts with the Value
Path — Does — Start — /secure
End
The string ends with the Value
Path — Does — End — .jpg
Contain
The string does contain the Value
Request Header — Accept — Does — Contain — image
Equal
The string does Equal the Value
Host — Does — Equal — www.jetnexus.com
Have Length
The string does have length of the value
Host — Does — Have Length — 16
www.jetnexus.com = TRUE
www.jetnexus.co.uk = FALSE
Match RegEx
This enables you to enter a full Perl compatible regular expression
Origin IP — Does — Match Regex — 10\..* | 11\..*
Example
·     The example has two conditions, and BOTH must be met to carry out the action
·     The first is checking that the requested object is an image
·     The second is checking for a specific hostname