Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5
Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.3.6
Opened: Apr 07, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
Safari, Chrome, Edge and Internet Explorer support backslashes in URL path and treat them as slashes. But Portal Access converts backslashes in URLs to slashes explicitly; this may cause unexpected results in some web applications. Note that FireFox has no such support.
Web application may not work correctly.
HTML page with URL with backslashes in the path, for example: <a href=http://some.com\some\path/file.ext>
In some cases it is possible to modify rewritten URLs by iRule.
Now URLs with backslashes are supported correctly by Portal Access for all browsers except for Internet Explorer 7--9 and FireFox.