FieldToMatch

Specifies a web request component to be used in a rule match statement or in a logging configuration.

In a rule statement, this is the part of the web request that you want Amazon WAF to inspect. Include the single FieldToMatch type that you want to inspect, with additional specifications as needed, according to the type. You specify a single request component in FieldToMatch for each rule statement that requires it. To inspect more than one component of the web request, create a separate rule statement for each component.

Example JSON for a QueryString field to match:

"FieldToMatch": { "QueryString": {} }

Example JSON for a Method field to match specification:

"FieldToMatch": { "Method": { "Name": "DELETE" } }
In a logging configuration, this is used in the RedactedFields property to specify a field to redact from the logging records. For this use case, note the following:
- Even though all FieldToMatch settings are available, the only valid settings for field redaction are UriPath, QueryString, SingleHeader, and Method.
- In this documentation, the descriptions of the individual fields talk about specifying the web request component to inspect, but for field redaction, you are specifying the component type to redact from the logs.
- If you have request sampling enabled, the redacted fields configuration for logging has no impact on sampling. The only way to exclude fields from request sampling is by disabling sampling in the web ACL visibility configuration.

AllQueryArguments

Inspect all query arguments.

Required: No

Body

Inspect the request body as plain text. The request body immediately follows the request headers. This is the part of a request that contains any additional data that you want to send to your web server as the HTTP request body, such as data from a form.

Amazon WAF does not support inspecting the entire contents of the web request body if the body exceeds the limit for the resource type. When a web request body is larger than the limit, the underlying host service only forwards the contents that are within the limit to Amazon WAF for inspection.

For Application Load Balancer and Amazon AppSync, the limit is fixed at 8 KB (8,192 bytes).
For CloudFront, API Gateway, Amazon Cognito, App Runner, and Verified Access, the default limit is 16 KB (16,384 bytes), and you can increase the limit for each resource type in the web ACL AssociationConfig, for additional processing fees.

For information about how to handle oversized request bodies, see the Body object configuration.

Type: Body object

Required: No

Cookies

Inspect the request cookies. You must configure scope and pattern matching filters in the Cookies object, to define the set of cookies and the parts of the cookies that Amazon WAF inspects.

Only the first 8 KB (8192 bytes) of a request's cookies and only the first 200 cookies are forwarded to Amazon WAF for inspection by the underlying host service. You must configure how to handle any oversize cookie content in the Cookies object. Amazon WAF applies the pattern matching filters to the cookies that it receives from the underlying host service.

Type: Cookies object

Required: No

HeaderOrder

Inspect a string containing the list of the request's header names, ordered as they appear in the web request that Amazon WAF receives for inspection. Amazon WAF generates the string and then uses that as the field to match component in its inspection. Amazon WAF separates the header names in the string using colons and no added spaces, for example host:user-agent:accept:authorization:referer.

Type: HeaderOrder object

Required: No

Headers

Inspect the request headers. You must configure scope and pattern matching filters in the Headers object, to define the set of headers to and the parts of the headers that Amazon WAF inspects.

Only the first 8 KB (8192 bytes) of a request's headers and only the first 200 headers are forwarded to Amazon WAF for inspection by the underlying host service. You must configure how to handle any oversize header content in the Headers object. Amazon WAF applies the pattern matching filters to the headers that it receives from the underlying host service.

Type: Headers object

Required: No

JA3Fingerprint

Match against the request's JA3 fingerprint. The JA3 fingerprint is a 32-character hash derived from the TLS Client Hello of an incoming request. This fingerprint serves as a unique identifier for the client's TLS configuration. Amazon WAF calculates and logs this fingerprint for each request that has enough TLS Client Hello information for the calculation. Almost all web requests include this information.

Note

You can use this choice only with a string match ByteMatchStatement with the PositionalConstraint set to EXACTLY.

You can obtain the JA3 fingerprint for client requests from the web ACL logs. If Amazon WAF is able to calculate the fingerprint, it includes it in the logs. For information about the logging fields, see Log fields in the Amazon WAF Developer Guide.

Provide the JA3 fingerprint string from the logs in your string match statement specification, to match with any future requests that have the same TLS configuration.

Type: JA3Fingerprint object

Required: No

JsonBody

Inspect the request body as JSON. The request body immediately follows the request headers. This is the part of a request that contains any additional data that you want to send to your web server as the HTTP request body, such as data from a form.

For Application Load Balancer and Amazon AppSync, the limit is fixed at 8 KB (8,192 bytes).
For CloudFront, API Gateway, Amazon Cognito, App Runner, and Verified Access, the default limit is 16 KB (16,384 bytes), and you can increase the limit for each resource type in the web ACL AssociationConfig, for additional processing fees.

For information about how to handle oversized request bodies, see the JsonBody object configuration.

Type: JsonBody object

Required: No

Method

Inspect the HTTP method. The method indicates the type of operation that the request is asking the origin to perform.

Type: Method object

Required: No

QueryString

Inspect the query string. This is the part of a URL that appears after a ? character, if any.

Type: QueryString object

Required: No

SingleHeader

Inspect a single header. Provide the name of the header to inspect, for example, User-Agent or Referer. This setting isn't case sensitive.

Example JSON: "SingleHeader": { "Name": "haystack" }

Alternately, you can filter and inspect all headers with the Headers FieldToMatch setting.

Type: SingleHeader object

Required: No

SingleQueryArgument

Inspect a single query argument. Provide the name of the query argument to inspect, such as UserName or SalesRegion. The name can be up to 30 characters long and isn't case sensitive.

Example JSON: "SingleQueryArgument": { "Name": "myArgument" }

Type: SingleQueryArgument object

Required: No

UriPath

Inspect the request URI path. This is the part of the web request that identifies a resource, for example, /images/daily-ad.jpg.

Type: UriPath object

Required: No

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