Invalid WebFilter Apache module configuration data in Web Agent

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction

What means the error message seen in the Web Agent logs?

 [ERROR:0] APACHE20WEBFILTER: Invalid WebFilter Apache module configuration data"

 

Resolution

This error message is set by the Web Agent when the Web Agent tries to obtain the post data, and encounters an error.

To obtain the POST, the Web Agent tries to get the Apache filter configuration and returns the error message

   "Invalid WebFilter Apache module configuration data"

when the Apache server returns an error to the Web Agent.

The valid encoding types for POST request are

  "application/x-www.form-urlencoded"
  "application/octet-stream"
  "text/xml"

Per the HTTP specification for "FORM Submission", "application/x-www-urlencoded" is the default encoding type for POST requests.

Any other encoding type (Content-Type header) will be rejected by the Web Agent.