404 errors caused by incorrect URLs

Website, Application, Performance
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Hi.

We are getting thousands of errors on our site because someone is trying to load URLs like this: https://www.realplasticfree.com:443/product/8940/ https:/www.realfoods.co.uk/article/shops/health-and-beauty/shops/raw-foods/shops/health-and-beauty/shops/house-and-baby/books,-clothing-and-stationery i.e. they are concatenating two URLs which generates an error - which is recorded and clogs up our error storage and alerting.

Is there any way we can filter these out before they cause the error on our site?

Thanks, Jon

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Hi,

You could create either a Redirect Rule or a WAF Custom Rule to deal with these requests:

When incoming requests match...
URI Path contains "https://"
Then...
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Thank you. The custom rule sorted it. Won’t need to ask again for similar issues, so thanks again!

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