Re: writing rule with uricontent keyword

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

At 02:39 PM 2/28/2005, Jiju Menon wrote:
> I tried to get an alert with a test rule using uricontent:
>
> alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET 80 (msg:"yahoo.com";
> uricontent:"yahoo.com";nocase;)
>
> The rule seems not to detect a connection made to yahoo.com. Can
> anyone help me to get this rule working?

At casual glance, it looks OK...

As a sanity check, can you try a rule using "any any -> any 80" instead of 
HOME_NET and EXTERNAL_NET?

You also might need http_inspect enabled for the uricontent keyword to work. 



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