Protection – Filters and GeoIP

In this article, you will learn:

• How WEDOS Protection features work
• How to set up:
  • Filters
  • GeoIP
• Frequently Asked Questions

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WEDOS Protection Features

To protect your web, WEDOS Protection proxy servers use the following features:

• Filters: Using filters, the system blocks a wide range of threat types. You can also filter traffic directed to specific URLs on your domain. To learn more, check out Filters.
• GeoIP: This feature expands filters, enabling you to allow or block incoming requests from IP addresses by country. To learn more, check out GeoIP.

These features are in Modalità AI by default. This means that any event recognized as a threat automatically informs the entire system’s decisions on how to handle it. Users with the Expert subscription plan and above can enable Custom settings in addition to AI Mode.

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Protection Feature Setup

To access the feature settings, follow these steps:

1. Log into the WEDOS Global Admin panel ⧉.
2. Select a domain or template to set up.
3. In the left menu, select the feature to set up.

Filters

WEDOS Protection currently uses the following filters:

• IP Filter: Traffic coming from IP addresses or ranges listed here are blocked by the proxy and do not reach your web server. This filter is especially helpful if an attack is coming from a single IP address or small subnet.
• Filtro ASN: In addition to IP addresses, you can also block traffic from selected Autonomous System Numbers. An Autonomous System (AS) is a group of one or more IP prefixes run by one or more network operators that maintains a single, clearly defined routing policy. The network operators must have an ASN to control routing within their networks and to exchange routing information with other ISPs.
• User Agent Filter: Uno user agent identifica il tipo di applicazione, il sistema operativo o l’altra entità che richiede l’accesso al tuo web server. Di solito si identificano tramite il User-Agent header. Attackers may fake this header to announce themselves as a different client (agent spoofing).
• URL Filter: This filter sets up protected URLs on your domain, blocking any incoming traffic to the filtered addresses. In this regard, it works differently from the filters above.
• JA4 TLS Fingerprint Filter: Un fingerprint JA4 viene creato a livello di terminazione TLS e consente di classificare lo stack del client e non solo l’header. Acquisendo ed eseguendo l’hash di queste caratteristiche in modo coerente, si ottiene un fingerprint stabile legato al technology stack (libreria TLS, sistema operativo, runtime) e non la sua identità dichiarata. Questo filtro è particolarmente utile per evitare i falsi positivi.
• JA4H HTTP Fingerprint Filter: This is the same as JA4 but based on a client’s HTTP request. This filter is especially helpful for catching bots that match a browser at the TLS level but expose themselves at the HTTP layer.
• Referer Filter: The Referer HTTP header indicates the page or domain that linked to the current request. Useful for blocking referral spam, content scrapers, or traffic originating from known malicious or unwanted domains. Commonly used to prevent hotlinking (altri siti che incorporano direttamente le tue immagini, i tuoi video o i tuoi asset) e per bloccare il traffico di referrer falsi usato per falsare le analytics.
• Content-Type Filter: The Content-Type HTTP header declares the format of the request body (e.g. application/json, multipart/form-data, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, text/xml). Useful for restricting your application or API to only the payload types it expects — for example, blocking file uploads on endpoints that should only receive JSON, rejecting XML/SOAP on JSON-only APIs, or stopping malformed and unusual content types commonly produced by automated tools and exploit scanners.
• IP Category Filter: Filters traffic based on the type of network the source IP belongs to, rather than the IP address itself. WGP classifies each client IP into categories such as datacenter / hosting provider, residential ISP, mobile carrier, TOR / VPN / anonymising proxy, search engine crawler, e gruppi simili. In questo modo puoi applicare regole ampie, basate sull’intento, senza dover mantenere singoli elenchi di IP: ad esempio consentire il traffico residenziale e quello verificato dei motori di ricerca, sottoporre a verifica il traffico dei datacenter e scartare del tutto il traffico TOR/VPN.
• GeoIP filter: Since most IP addresses also carry the information on which country they are allocated to, you can quickly filter for an entire country. Because of its extensive setup, the GeoIP filter has its own section.

When accessed from a browser, blocked devices display an Accesso negato error page. Otherwise, the blocked content returns a Errore 456.

GeoIP

GeoIP is a type of filter which allows you to set up specific rules for specific countries, as chosen on a map. In addition to access (allow or block traffic), the GeoIP filter can also manage where to deploy Proof of Work as a protective measure.

To set up custom GeoIP rules, navigate to a Domain’s  GeoIP interface and follow these steps:

1. Enable Custom GeoIP.
2. Select a region (continent or country) using the dropdown or map.
3. Select one of the following actions for that region and click Submit:
   • Allow access / Whitelist: No GeoIP-based block.
   • Verifica CAPTCHA (Proof of Work): Require visitors to complete a challenge (Proof of Work, such as CAPTCHA).
   • Blocca con messaggio di errore (HTTP 456): Always block traffic, but display customizable error message.
   • Blocca silenziosamente: Blocca il traffico, restituisci solo il codice di errore.
4. Select default action for all other regions.
5. Click the Save settings button and Confirm.

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