Will Traffic Be Permitted After WAF Is Switched to the Bypassed Mode?
For cloud WAF instances, if you switch the instance working Mode to Bypassed, requests are directly sent to the original backend server without passing through WAF.
- Website services need to be restored to the status when the website is not connected to WAF.
- You need to investigate website errors, such as 502, 504, or other incompatibility issues.
- No proxy is configured between the client and WAF.
Effective Time of WAF Bypassed Working Mode
After you switch the WAF work Mode to Bypassed, it takes effect within 3 to 5 minutes.
Procedure for WAF Working Mechanism Switchover
- Log in to the management console.
- Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
- Click in the upper left corner and choose Web Application Firewall under Security & Compliance.
- In the navigation pane, choose Website Settings.
- In the row containing the target domain name, click in the Mode column and select Bypassed.
Figure 1 Switching WAF working mode
WAF Usage FAQs
- Why Does the Vulnerability Scanning Tool Report Disabled Non-standard Ports for My WAF-Protected Website?
- What Are the Restrictions on Using WAF in Enterprise Projects?
- How Do I Obtain the Real IP Address of a Web Visitor?
- Will Traffic Be Permitted After WAF Is Switched to the Bypassed Mode?
- What Are Local File Inclusion and Remote File Inclusion?
- What Is the Difference Between QPS and the Number of Requests?
- Does WAF Support Custom Authorization Policies?
- How Do I Configure My Server to Allow Only Requests from WAF?
- Why Do Cookies Contain the HWWAFSESID or HWWAFSESTIME field?
- Can I Switch Between the WAF Cloud Mode and Dedicated Mode?
- Can I Add a Domain Name or IP Address to WAF Under Different Accounts?
- How Do I Configure WAF If a Reverse Proxy Server Is Deployed for My Website?
- How Does WAF Forward Access Requests When Both a Wildcard Domain Name and a Single Domain Name Are Connected to WAF?
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