14-55
User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
OL-26572-01
Chapter
14






Configuring

Traffic

Policies
Configuring
Rules

and

Actions

for

Policy

Maps
Header
MIME

Type
Multipurpose
Internet

Mail

Extension

(MIME)

message

types

that

are

used

for

protocol

inspection
decisions.
In

the

Header

MIME

Type

field,

choose

the

MI

ME

message

t

ype

to

be

used

for

this
match
condition.
Port
Misuse
Misuse
of

port

80

(or

any

other

port

running

HTTP)

that

is

used

for

protocol

inspection

decisions.
In
the

Port

Misuse

field,

choose

the

application

category

to

be

used

for

this

match

condition:


IM—Instant
messaging

applications

ar

e
to
be

used

for

this
match
condition.


P2P—Peer-to-peer
applications

are

to

be
used
for

this

match
condition.


Tunneling—Tunneling
applications

are

to

be

used

for
this
match
condition.
Request
Method
Request
method

that

is

used

for

protocol

inspection

decisions.

By

default,

ACEs

allow

all

request
and
extension

methods.

This

option

allows

you

to

configure

class

maps

that

define

protocol
inspection
decisions

based

on

compliance

to

request

methods

defined

in

RFC

2616

and

by

HTTP
extension
methods.
a.
In
the

Request

Method

Type

field,

choose

t

he
type
of

c

ompliance

t

o

be

used

for

protocol
inspection
decision:


Ext—An

HTTP

extension

method

is

to

be

used

for

protocol

inspection

decisions.
Note
The
list

of
available
HTTP

extension

methods

from

which
to
choose

varies
depending
on

the

version

of

software

installed

in

the

ACE.


RFC—A

request

method

defined

in

RFC

261

6

is

to

be

used

for


protocol

inspection
decisions.
b.
In
the

Request

Method

field,

choose

the

specific
request
method

to

be
used.
Strict
HTTP
Internal
compliance

checks

that

are

performed

to

verify

that

a

message

is

compliant

with

the

HTTP
RFC
standard,

RFC

2616.

If

the

HTTP

message

is

not

compliant,

the

ACE

performs

the

specified
Layer
7

policy

map

action.
Transfer
Encoding
HTTP
transfer-encoding

type

that

is

used

for

protocol

inspection

decisions.

The

transfer-encoding
general-header
field

indicates

the

type

of

transformation,

if

any,

that

has

been

applied

to

the

HTTP
message
body

to

safely

transfer

i

t

between

the

sender

and

the

recipient.
In
the

Transfer

Encoding

field,

choose

the

type

of

encoding

that

is

to

be

checked:


Chunked—Message
body

is

transferred
as
a
ser

ies

of

ch

unks.


Compress—Encoding
format

that

is
produced
by

the

UNIX

file

compression

program
compress.


Deflate—The
.zlib
format
that

is
defined

in

RFC

195

0

in
combination
with

t

he

DEFLATE
compression
mechanism

described

in

RFC

1951.


Gzip—Encoding
format
that

is

produced

by

the

file
compression
program

GZIP

(GNU

zip)
as
described

in

RFC

195

2.


Identity—Default
(identity)
encoding
which
does

not


require

the

use

of

transformation.
Table
14-22
Layer
7

HTTP

Deep

Packet

Inspection

Policy

Map

Match

Conditions

(continued)
Match
Condition
Description