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happynfocus_245
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Mar 09, 2016

Is there a way to mask JSESSIONID?

My understanding of Data Mask is for masking response only, not for request. Is it correct?

 

I tried to mask the JESSIONID value because I do not want it to show on the alerts and splunk log.

 

Thanks!!

 

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  • The first step to solve your issue is to determine what JSESSIONID is for your application - a Cookie, a Header, a Payload Parameter(POST) or a URI Parameter? JSESSIONID used to be a universal name for session cookies, but nowadays it's used in many different ways.

     

    In any case, if that's a cookie which is inserted by BigIP, and is only significant for the balancing/persistency decisions in BigIP; it should not be a problem to use a substitution value. If that cookie has a significant function for the end-server or other middleware, there are more things to consider.

     

    Your understanding about Data Guard is correct. It's only use is to mask the sensitive data values from the end-user, not from the back-end systems.