HTTP Filter rejecting some requests

  • From: "Rob Moore" <RMoore@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:54:22 -0400

Hello all--

I'm publishing a Microsoft Sharepoint Services web server on my ISA 2004
server (Windows Server 2003). Sometimes when we click on a link, it gets
rejected. Error message = 12217 The request was rejected by the HTTP
filter.

When I look at the logs, I get a message that says "Blocked by the HTTP
security filter: URL normalization was not complete after one pass."

The URL is automatically generated (an ASP page, I guess) and is quite
long:
http://192.168.200.2/sca/Lists/General%20Discussion/NewForm.aspx?Source=
http%3A%2F%2Ftmp%2Eafscstar%2Eorg%2Fsca%2FLists%2FGeneral%2520Discussion
%2FAllItems%2Easpx

Other pages generated the same way don't seem to have a problem. For
example:
http://192.168.200.2/sca/Lists/FAQs/NewForm.aspx?Source=http%3A%2F%2Ftmp
%2Eafscstar%2Eorg%2Fsca%2FLists%2FFAQs%2FFlat%2Easpx

Is it a length thing? (i.e., Does size really matter?) 

For troubleshooting purposes, we created a link that would generate an
even longer URL, and it got blocked, too.

Is there a way to change this behavior?

Thanks,
Rob

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Rob Moore
Network Manager
215-241-7870
American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry St.
Philadelphia, PA  19102
RMoore@xxxxxxxx
Phone: 215-241-7870
Fax: 215-241-7204

Love is the only rational act.
                       --Morrie Schwartz

Other related posts: