Using wildcards in WAF Rules

Website, Application, Performance
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I see that WAF Rules now allows wildcards, presumably as of August 22, 2024:

The Expression Builder creates the expression like so:

http.request.uri.path) wildcard r"/wp-*.php"

but I keep seeing these requests in my error log. Upon reading the docs, though, I don’t see the r prepend anywhere. And when I remove the r manually, the rule is saved with no error.

Is the r a typo in the expression builder, or does it have a meaning that I don’t understand?

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Hey there,

The r character is added to specify raw string syntax. I would suggest taking a look at this document for more information on this.

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