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27 <div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_policy</h1>
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32 <table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>HTTP protocol compliance enforcement.</td></tr>
33 <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
34 <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier:</a></th><td>policy_module</td></tr>
35 <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source File:</a></th><td>mod_policy.c</td></tr></table>
38 <p>The HTTP protocol recommends that clients should be "liberal in
39 what they accept", and servers "strict with what they send". In some
40 cases it can be difficult to detect when a server or an application
41 has been misconfigured, is serving uncacheable content or is behaving
42 suboptimally, as an HTTP client might be compensating for the server.
43 These problems can potentially lead to excessive bandwidth
44 consumption, or a server outage under load.</p>
46 <p>The <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_policy.html">mod_policy</a></code> module consists of a set of
47 filters that test servers for HTTP protocol compliance. These
48 tests allow the server administrator to log violations of, or
49 outright reject responses where certain defined conditions exist.</p>
51 <p>This could be used as a way to set minimum HTTP protocol compliance
52 criteria for a restful application. Alternatively, a reverse proxy or
53 cache could be configured to protect itself from misconfigured origin
54 servers or unexpectedly uncacheable content, or as a mechanism to
55 detect configuration mistakes within the server itself.</p>
58 <div id="quickview"><h3>Topics</h3>
60 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#actions">Actions</a></li>
61 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#tests">Policy Tests</a></li>
62 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#example">Example Configuration</a></li>
63 </ul><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
65 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyconditional">PolicyConditional</a></li>
66 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyconditionalurl">PolicyConditionalURL</a></li>
67 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyenvironment">PolicyEnvironment</a></li>
68 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyfilter">PolicyFilter</a></li>
69 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policykeepalive">PolicyKeepalive</a></li>
70 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policykeepaliveurl">PolicyKeepaliveURL</a></li>
71 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policylength">PolicyLength</a></li>
72 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policylengthurl">PolicyLengthURL</a></li>
73 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policymaxage">PolicyMaxage</a></li>
74 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policymaxageurl">PolicyMaxageURL</a></li>
75 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policynocache">PolicyNocache</a></li>
76 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policynocacheurl">PolicyNocacheURL</a></li>
77 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policytype">PolicyType</a></li>
78 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policytypeurl">PolicyTypeURL</a></li>
79 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyvalidation">PolicyValidation</a></li>
80 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyvalidationurl">PolicyValidationURL</a></li>
81 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyvary">PolicyVary</a></li>
82 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyvaryurl">PolicyVaryURL</a></li>
83 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyversion">PolicyVersion</a></li>
84 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#policyversionurl">PolicyVersionURL</a></li>
86 <h3>Bugfix checklist</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4">httpd changelog</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&list_id=144532&product=Apache%20httpd-2&query_format=specific&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&component=mod_policy">Known issues</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Apache%20httpd-2&component=mod_policy">Report a bug</a></li></ul><h3>See also</h3>
88 <li><a href="../filter.html">Filters</a></li>
89 <li><a href="../compliance.html">HTTP Protocol Compliance</a></li>
90 <li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
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93 <h2><a name="actions" id="actions">Actions</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#actions" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
96 <p>If a policy is violated, one of the following actions can be
100 <dt><strong>ignore</strong></dt>
101 <dd>The policy check will be ignored for the given URL space, even
102 if the filter is present.</dd>
104 <dt><strong>log</strong></dt>
105 <dd>The policy check will be executed, and if a violation is detected
106 a warning will be logged to the server error_log, and a
107 <code>Warning</code> header added to the response for the benefit of
110 <dt><strong>enforce</strong></dt>
111 <dd>The policy check will be executed, and if a violation is detected
112 an error will be logged to the server error_log, a
113 <code>Warning</code> header added to the response, and a <code>502
114 Bad Gateway</code> will be returned to the client. Optional links to
115 explanatory documentation can be added to each error message,
116 detailing the origin of each policy.</dd>
120 <p>It is also possible to selectively disable all policies for a
121 given URL space, should the need arise, using the
122 <code class="directive"><a href="#policyfilter">PolicyFilter</a></code> directive.</p>
124 <p>Alternatively, the
125 <code class="directive"><a href="#policyenvironment">PolicyEnvironment</a></code>
126 directive can be used to specify an environment variable, which if
127 present, will cause the policies to be selectively downgraded or
130 </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
131 <div class="section">
132 <h2><a name="tests" id="tests">Policy Tests</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#tests" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
135 <p>The following policy filters are available:</p>
138 <dt><strong><a href="../compliance.html#policytype">POLICY_TYPE</a>
139 </strong>: Enforce valid content types</dt>
140 <dd>Content types that are syntactically invalid or blank can be detected
141 and the request rejected. Types can be restricted to a specific list
142 containing optional wildcards ? and *.</dd>
144 <dt><strong><a href="../compliance.html#policylength">POLICY_LENGTH</a>
145 </strong>: Enforce the presence of a Content-Length</dt>
146 <dd>The length of responses can be specified in one of three ways, by
147 specifying an explicit length in advance, using chunked encoding to set
148 the length, or by setting no length at all and terminating the request
149 when complete. The absence of a specific content length can affect the
150 cacheability of the response, and prevents the use of keepalive during
151 HTTP/1.0 requests. This policy enforces the presence of an explicit
152 content length on the response.</dd>
154 <dt><strong><a href="../compliance.html#policykeepalive">POLICY_KEEPALIVE
155 </a></strong>: Enforce the option to keepalive</dt>
156 <dd>Less restrictive than the POLICY_LENGTH test, this policy enforces the
157 possibility that the response can be kept alive. If the response doesn't
158 have a protocol defined zero length, and the response isn't already an
159 error, and the response has neither a Content-Length or is declared
160 HTTP/1.1 and lacks Content-Encoding: chunked, then this response will be
163 <dt><strong><a href="../compliance.html#policyvary">POLICY_VARY</a>
164 </strong>: Enforce the absence of certain headers within Vary headers</dt>
165 <dd>If the Vary header contains any of the headers specified, this policy
166 will reject the request. The typical case is the presence of the User-Agent
167 within Vary, which is likely to cause a denial of service condition to a
170 <dt><strong><a href="../compliance.html#policyvalidation">
171 POLICY_VALIDATION</a></strong>: Enforce the presence of Etag and/or
173 <dd>The ability for a cache to determine whether a cached entity can be
174 refreshed is dependent on whether a valid Etag and/or Last-Modified header
175 is present to revalidate against. The absence of both headers, or the
176 invalid syntax of a header will cause this policy to be rejected.</dd>
178 <dt><strong><a href="../compliance.html#policyconditional">
179 POLICY_CONDITIONAL</a></strong>: Enforce correct operation of conditional
181 <dd>When conditional headers are present in the request, a server should
182 respond with a <code>304 Not Modified</code> or <code>412 Precondition
183 Failed</code> response where appropriate. A server may ignore conditional
184 headers, and this affects the efficiency of the HTTP caching mechanism.
185 This policy rejects requests where a conditional header is present, and
186 a 304 or 412 response code was expected, but a 2xx response was seen
189 <dt><strong><a href="../compliance.html#policynocache">POLICY_NOCACHE</a>
190 </strong>: Enforce cacheable responses</dt>
191 <dd>When a response is encountered that declares itself explicitly
192 uncacheable, the request is rejected. A response is considered
193 uncacheable if it specifies any of the following:
194 <ul><li><code>Cache-Control: no-cache</code></li>
195 <li><code>Pragma: no-cache</code></li>
196 <li><code>Cache-Control: no-store</code></li>
197 <li><code>Cache-Control: private</code></li>
200 <dt><strong><a href="../compliance.html#policymaxage">POLICY_MAXAGE</a>
201 </strong>: Enforce a minimum maxage</dt>
202 <dd>When a response is encountered where the freshness lifetime is less
203 than the given value, or the freshness lifetime is heuristic, the request
204 is rejected. A response is checked in the following order:
205 <ul><li>If <code>s-maxage</code> is present but too small; or</li>
206 <li>If <code>max-age</code> is present but too small; or</li>
207 <li>If <code>Expires</code> is present and invalid; or</li>
208 <li><code>Date</code> is present and invalid; or</li>
209 <li><code>Expires</code> minus Date is too small; or</li>
210 <li>No <code>s-maxage</code>, <code>maxage</code>, or
211 <code>Expires</code>/<code>Date</code> declared at all</li>
214 <dt><strong><a href="../compliance.html#policyversion">POLICY_VERSION</a>
215 </strong>: Enforce a minimum HTTP version within a request</dt>
216 <dd>When a request is encountered with an HTTP version number less than
217 the required minimum version, the request is rejected. The following
218 version numbers are recognised:
219 <ul><li><code>HTTP/1.1</code></li>
220 <li><code>HTTP/1.0</code></li>
221 <li><code>HTTP/0.9</code></li>
226 </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
227 <div class="section">
228 <h2><a name="example" id="example">Example Configuration</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#example" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
231 <p>A typical configuration protecting a server serving static content
232 might be as follows:</p>
234 <pre class="prettyprint lang-config"><Location "/">
235 SetOutputFilter POLICY_TYPE;POLICY_LENGTH;POLICY_KEEPALIVE;POLICY_VARY;POLICY_VALIDATION; \
236 POLICY_CONDITIONAL;POLICY_NOCACHE;POLICY_MAXAGE;POLICY_VERSION
238 # content type must be present and valid, but can be anything
239 PolicyType enforce */*
241 # reject if no explicitly declared content length
244 # covered by the policy length filter
245 PolicyKeepalive ignore
247 # reject if User-Agent appears within Vary headers
248 PolicyVary enforce User-Agent
250 # we want to enforce validation
251 PolicyValidation enforce
253 # non-functional conditional responses should be rejected
254 PolicyConditional enforce
256 # no-cache responses should be rejected
257 PolicyNocache enforce
259 # maxage must be at least a day
260 PolicyMaxage enforce 86400
262 # request version can be anything
263 PolicyVersion ignore HTTP/1.1
266 # suppress policy protection for server-status
267 <Location "/server-status">
269 </Location></pre>
273 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
274 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyConditional" id="PolicyConditional">PolicyConditional</a> <a name="policyconditional" id="policyconditional">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyconditional" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
275 <table class="directive">
276 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable the conditional request policy.</td></tr>
277 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyConditional <var>ignore|log|enforce</var></code></td></tr>
278 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ignore</code></td></tr>
279 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
280 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
281 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
282 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyConditional is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
285 <p>When logged or enforced, a response that should have been conditional
286 but wasn't will be rejected.</p>
288 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># non-functional conditional responses should be rejected
289 PolicyConditional enforce</pre>
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294 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyConditionalURL" id="PolicyConditionalURL">PolicyConditionalURL</a> <a name="policyconditionalurl" id="policyconditionalurl">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyconditionalurl" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
295 <table class="directive">
296 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>URL describing the conditional request policy.</td></tr>
297 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyConditionalURL <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
298 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
299 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
300 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
301 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
302 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyConditionalURL is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
305 <p>Specify the URL of the documentation describing the conditional
306 request policy, to appear within error messages.</p>
309 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
310 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyEnvironment" id="PolicyEnvironment">PolicyEnvironment</a> <a name="policyenvironment" id="policyenvironment">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyenvironment" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
311 <table class="directive">
312 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Override policies based on an environment variable.</td></tr>
313 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyEnvironment <var>variable</var> <var>log-value</var> <var>ignore-value</var></code></td></tr>
314 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
315 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
316 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
317 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
318 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyEnvironment is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
321 <p>Downgrade policies to logging only or ignored based on the presence
322 of an environment variable. If the given variable is present and equal
323 to the log-value, enforced policies will be logged instead. If the given
324 variable is present and equal to the ignore-value, all policies will
327 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># downgrade if POLICY_CONTROL was present
328 PolicyEnvironment POLICY_CONTROL log ignore</pre>
332 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
333 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyFilter" id="PolicyFilter">PolicyFilter</a> <a name="policyfilter" id="policyfilter">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyfilter" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
334 <table class="directive">
335 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable or disable policies for the given URL space.</td></tr>
336 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyFilter <var>on|off</var></code></td></tr>
337 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>on</code></td></tr>
338 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
339 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
340 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
341 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyFilter is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
344 <p>Master switch to enable or disable policies for a given URL space.</p>
346 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># enabled by default
351 # suppress policy protection for server-status
352 <Location "/server-status">
354 </Location></pre>
358 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
359 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyKeepalive" id="PolicyKeepalive">PolicyKeepalive</a> <a name="policykeepalive" id="policykeepalive">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policykeepalive" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
360 <table class="directive">
361 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable the keepalive policy.</td></tr>
362 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyKeepalive <var>ignore|log|enforce</var></code></td></tr>
363 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ignore</code></td></tr>
364 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
365 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
366 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
367 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyKeepalive is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
370 <p>When logged or enforced, a response that lacks both an explicit
371 <code>Content-Length</code> header and a <code>Transfer-Encoding</code>
372 of <code>chunked</code> will be rejected.</p>
374 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># missing Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding should be rejected
375 PolicyKeepalive enforce</pre>
379 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
380 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyKeepaliveURL" id="PolicyKeepaliveURL">PolicyKeepaliveURL</a> <a name="policykeepaliveurl" id="policykeepaliveurl">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policykeepaliveurl" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
381 <table class="directive">
382 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>URL describing the keepalive policy.</td></tr>
383 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyKeepaliveURL <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
384 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
385 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
386 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
387 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
388 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyKeepaliveURL is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
391 <p>Specify the URL of the documentation describing the keepalive
392 policy, to appear within error messages.</p>
395 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
396 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyLength" id="PolicyLength">PolicyLength</a> <a name="policylength" id="policylength">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policylength" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
397 <table class="directive">
398 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable the content length policy.</td></tr>
399 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyLength <var>ignore|log|enforce</var></code></td></tr>
400 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ignore</code></td></tr>
401 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
402 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
403 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
404 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyLength is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
407 <p>When logged or enforced, a response that lacks an explicit
408 <code>Content-Length</code> header will be rejected.</p>
410 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># missing Content-Length header should be rejected
411 PolicyLength enforce</pre>
415 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
416 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyLengthURL" id="PolicyLengthURL">PolicyLengthURL</a> <a name="policylengthurl" id="policylengthurl">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policylengthurl" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
417 <table class="directive">
418 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>URL describing the content length policy.</td></tr>
419 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyLengthURL <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
420 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
421 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
422 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
423 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
424 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyLengthURL is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
427 <p>Specify the URL of the documentation describing the content length
428 policy, to appear within error messages.</p>
431 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
432 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyMaxage" id="PolicyMaxage">PolicyMaxage</a> <a name="policymaxage" id="policymaxage">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policymaxage" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
433 <table class="directive">
434 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable the caching minimum max-age policy.</td></tr>
435 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyMaxage <var>ignore|log|enforce</var> <var>age</var></code></td></tr>
436 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ignore</code></td></tr>
437 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
438 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
439 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
440 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyMaxage is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
443 <p>When logged or enforced, a response that lacks an explicit freshness
444 lifetime defined with <code>max-age</code>, <code>s-maxage</code> or an
445 <code>Expires</code> header, or where the explicit freshness lifetime is
446 smaller than the given value, will be rejected.</p>
448 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># reject responses with a freshness lifetime shorter than a day
449 PolicyMaxage enforce 86400</pre>
454 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
455 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyMaxageURL" id="PolicyMaxageURL">PolicyMaxageURL</a> <a name="policymaxageurl" id="policymaxageurl">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policymaxageurl" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
456 <table class="directive">
457 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>URL describing the caching minimum freshness lifetime policy.</td></tr>
458 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyMaxageURL <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
459 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
460 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
461 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
462 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
463 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyMaxageURL is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
466 <p>Specify the URL of the documentation describing the caching minimum
467 freshness lifetime policy, to appear within error messages.</p>
470 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
471 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyNocache" id="PolicyNocache">PolicyNocache</a> <a name="policynocache" id="policynocache">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policynocache" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
472 <table class="directive">
473 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable the caching no-cache policy.</td></tr>
474 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyNocache <var>ignore|log|enforce</var></code></td></tr>
475 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ignore</code></td></tr>
476 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
477 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
478 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
479 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyNocache is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
482 <p>When logged or enforced, a response that defines itself uncacheable
483 using the <code>Cache-Control</code> or <code>Pragma</code> headers will
486 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># Cache-Control: no-cache will be rejected
487 PolicyNocache enforce</pre>
492 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
493 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyNocacheURL" id="PolicyNocacheURL">PolicyNocacheURL</a> <a name="policynocacheurl" id="policynocacheurl">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policynocacheurl" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
494 <table class="directive">
495 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>URL describing the caching no-cache policy.</td></tr>
496 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyNocacheURL <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
497 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
498 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
499 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
500 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
501 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyNocacheURL is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
504 <p>Specify the URL of the documentation describing the caching no-cache
505 policy, to appear within error messages.</p>
508 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
509 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyType" id="PolicyType">PolicyType</a> <a name="policytype" id="policytype">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policytype" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
510 <table class="directive">
511 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable the content type policy.</td></tr>
512 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyType <var>ignore|log|enforce</var> <var>type</var> [ <var>type</var> [ ... ]]</code></td></tr>
513 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ignore</code></td></tr>
514 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
515 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
516 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
517 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyType is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
520 <p>When logged or enforced, a response that lacks a <code>Content-Type</code>
521 header, where the <code>Content-Type</code> header is malformed, or where the
522 header does not match the given pattern or patterns will be rejected.</p>
524 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># enforce json or XML
525 PolicyType enforce application/json text/xml</pre>
528 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># malformed content type should be rejected
529 PolicyType enforce */*</pre>
534 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
535 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyTypeURL" id="PolicyTypeURL">PolicyTypeURL</a> <a name="policytypeurl" id="policytypeurl">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policytypeurl" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
536 <table class="directive">
537 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>URL describing the content type policy.</td></tr>
538 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyTypeURL <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
539 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
540 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
541 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
542 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
543 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyTypeURL is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
546 <p>Specify the URL of the documentation describing the content type
547 policy, to appear within error messages.</p>
550 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
551 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyValidation" id="PolicyValidation">PolicyValidation</a> <a name="policyvalidation" id="policyvalidation">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyvalidation" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
552 <table class="directive">
553 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable the validation policy.</td></tr>
554 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyValidation <var>ignore|log|enforce</var></code></td></tr>
555 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ignore</code></td></tr>
556 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
557 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
558 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
559 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyValidation is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
562 <p>When logged or enforced, a response that lacks either a valid
563 <code>ETag</code> header or a <code>Last-Modified</code> header, or where
564 either header is syntactically incorrect, will be rejected.</p>
566 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># no ETag or Last-Modified will be rejected
567 PolicyValidation enforce</pre>
572 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
573 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyValidationURL" id="PolicyValidationURL">PolicyValidationURL</a> <a name="policyvalidationurl" id="policyvalidationurl">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyvalidationurl" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
574 <table class="directive">
575 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>URL describing the content type policy.</td></tr>
576 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyValidationURL <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
577 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
578 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
579 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
580 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
581 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyValidationURL is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
584 <p>Specify the URL of the documentation describing the validation policy, to
585 appear within error messages.</p>
588 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
589 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyVary" id="PolicyVary">PolicyVary</a> <a name="policyvary" id="policyvary">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyvary" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
590 <table class="directive">
591 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable the Vary policy.</td></tr>
592 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyVary <var>ignore|log|enforce</var> <var>header</var> [ <var>header</var> [ ... ]]</code></td></tr>
593 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ignore</code></td></tr>
594 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
595 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
596 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
597 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyVary is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
600 <p>When logged or enforced, a response that contains a <code>Vary</code>
601 header which in turn contains one of the headers listed, will be
604 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># reject reponses with "User-Agent" listed in the Vary header
605 PolicyVary enforce User-Agent</pre>
610 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
611 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyVaryURL" id="PolicyVaryURL">PolicyVaryURL</a> <a name="policyvaryurl" id="policyvaryurl">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyvaryurl" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
612 <table class="directive">
613 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>URL describing the content type policy.</td></tr>
614 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyVaryURL <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
615 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
616 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
617 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
618 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
619 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyVaryURL is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
622 <p>Specify the URL of the documentation describing the vary policy, to
623 appear within error messages.</p>
626 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
627 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyVersion" id="PolicyVersion">PolicyVersion</a> <a name="policyversion" id="policyversion">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyversion" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
628 <table class="directive">
629 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable the version policy.</td></tr>
630 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyVersion <var>ignore|log|enforce</var> <var>HTTP/0.9|HTTP/1.0|HTTP/1.1</var></code></td></tr>
631 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ignore</code></td></tr>
632 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
633 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
634 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
635 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyVersion is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
638 <p>When logged or enforced, a request with a version lower than specified
639 will be rejected.</p>
641 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># reject requests with an HTTP version older than HTTP/1.1
642 PolicyVersion enforce HTTP/1.1</pre>
647 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
648 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="PolicyVersionURL" id="PolicyVersionURL">PolicyVersionURL</a> <a name="policyversionurl" id="policyversionurl">Directive</a><a title="Permanent link" href="#policyversionurl" class="permalink">¶</a></h2>
649 <table class="directive">
650 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>URL describing the minimum request HTTP version policy.</td></tr>
651 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>PolicyVersionURL <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
652 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
653 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
654 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
655 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_policy</td></tr>
656 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>PolicyVersionURL is only available in Apache 2.5.0 and
659 <p>Specify the URL of the documentation describing the minimum request
660 HTTP version policy, to appear within error messages.</p>
664 <div class="bottomlang">
665 <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/mod/mod_policy.html" title="English"> en </a> |
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