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title: uri-blocker

Summary

• Name
• Attributes
• How To Enable
• Test Plugin
• Disable Plugin

Name

The plugin helps we intercept user requests, we only need to indicate the block_rules.

Attributes

Name	Type	Requirement	Default	Valid	Description
block_rules	array[string]	required			Regular filter rule array. Each of these items is a regular rule. If the current request URI hits any one of them, set the response code to rejected_code to exit the current user request. Example: ["root.exe", "root.m+"].
rejected_code	integer	optional	403	[200, ...]	The HTTP status code returned when the request URI hit any of block_rules

How To Enable

Here's an example, enable the uri blocker plugin on the specified route:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/*",
    "plugins": {
        "uri-blocker": {
            "block_rules": ["root.exe", "root.m+"]
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'

Test Plugin

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/root.exe?a=a
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:55:41 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 150
Connection: keep-alive
Server: APISIX web server

... ...

Disable Plugin

When you want to disable the uri blocker plugin, it is very simple, you can delete the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration, no need to restart the service, it will take effect immediately:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/*",
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'

The uri blocker plugin has been disabled now. It works for other plugins.