An operator for WAF custom rules that compares the client's IP with a list of addresses or CIDR ranges.
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Terms in this definition
- WAF custom rules
WAF rules you define yourself, of match or rate-limit type, that are processed ahead of managed rules and can test conditions like geo-location, IP, headers or URI.
- List
Permission on Key Vault secrets allowing a caller to enumerate those in a vault, though their values are not returned.
- CIDR
Notation for IP ranges that writes an address followed by a prefix length, as in 10.1.255.0/24; short for Classless Inter-Domain Routing.
Related terms
- New-AzApplicationGatewayFirewallCondition
Cmdlet that builds a match condition for a WAF custom rule from a match variable, an operator such as GeoMatch or IPMatch, and the values to match.
- RemoteAddr
Match variable in WAF rules representing the client's original IP, generally read from X-Forwarded-For, and paired with the IPMatch or GeoMatch operators.