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# HTTP Protocol Violation

Prophaze WAF can detect and block HTTP Protocol violation detection in the following ways

* Blocking GET/HEAD Request with a body 
* POST Request without Content-Length Header 
* Identity should be used in Accept-Encoding not in Content-Encoding 
* Denies non HTTP/1.1 Requests HTTP/1.1 request with pragma:no-cache header with out corresponding Cache-Control header
*  Request with abnormal or excessive byte range in one request Request with Broken connection header