Description | This article describes why traffic logs can be found showing HTTP requests to the /fwbbot_check URL, even though the backend server does not have this path. |
Scope | FortiWeb. |
Solution |
This path is related to the ML Bot detection feature where when the Real Browser Enforcement verification method is used, FortiWeb injects a javascript to verify whether the user is a normal browser and not a bot so that the collected samples can be filtered. However, FortiWeb will only insert JavaScript into pages where the response is HTML.
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