# Protocol Validation

Prophaze WAF has the following protocol validations in effect

* Method Restriction
* Protocol and Protocol version Restriction
* RFC Validation
* URL Encoding  Validation
* Validation of Non-Standard Encoding
* Cookie Enforcement

#### Additional Restrictions

* Element content and length
* Element byte range
* Character set validations

Restrictions can be applied at

* Application Level
* Object Level
* Parameter Level

#### Additional Protocol Limits Supported by Prophaze WAF

* Request method length
* Request line length
* Request URI length
* Header name and value
* Request body length
* Cookie value , name and number
* Parameter name , value and length


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