<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>About Plugins :: CRS Documentation</title><link>https://8192de7b.documentation-km5.pages.dev/4-about-plugins/index.html</link><description/><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://8192de7b.documentation-km5.pages.dev/4-about-plugins/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Plugins</title><link>https://8192de7b.documentation-km5.pages.dev/4-about-plugins/4-1-plugins/index.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://8192de7b.documentation-km5.pages.dev/4-about-plugins/4-1-plugins/index.html</guid><description>The CRS plugin mechanism allows the rule set to be extended in specific, experimental, or unusual ways, as this page explains.
Note Plugins are not part of the CRS 3.3.x release line. They are released officially with CRS 4.0. In the meantime, plugins can be used with one of the stable releases by following the instructions presented below.
What are Plugins? Plugins are sets of additional rules that can be plugged in to a web application firewall in order to expand CRS with complementary functionality or to interact with CRS. Rule exclusion plugins are a special case: these are plugins that disable certain rules to integrate CRS in to a context that is otherwise likely to trigger certain false alarms.</description></item><item><title>Writing Plugins</title><link>https://8192de7b.documentation-km5.pages.dev/4-about-plugins/4-2-writing-plugins/index.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://8192de7b.documentation-km5.pages.dev/4-about-plugins/4-2-writing-plugins/index.html</guid><description>The CRS plugin mechanism allows the rule set to be extended in specific, experimental, or unusual ways. This page explains how to write a new plugin to extend CRS.
How to Write a Plugin Is a Plugin the Right Approach for a Given Rule Problem? This is the first and most important question to ask.</description></item></channel></rss>