HTTPRequest - AWS WAFV2

HTTPRequest

Note

AWS WAF Classic support will end on September 30, 2025.

This is AWS WAF Classic documentation. For more information, see AWS WAF Classic in the developer guide.

For the latest version of AWS WAF , use the AWS WAFV2 API and see the AWS WAF Developer Guide. With the latest version, AWS WAF has a single set of endpoints for regional and global use.

The response from a GetSampledRequests request includes an HTTPRequest complex type that appears as Request in the response syntax. HTTPRequest contains information about one of the web requests that were returned by GetSampledRequests.

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ClientIP

The IP address that the request originated from. If the WebACL is associated with an Amazon CloudFront distribution, this is the value of one of the following fields in CloudFront access logs:

  • c-ip, if the viewer did not use an HTTP proxy or a load balancer to send the request

  • x-forwarded-for, if the viewer did use an HTTP proxy or a load balancer to send the request

Type: String

Required: No

Country

The two-letter country code for the country that the request originated from. For a current list of country codes, see the Wikipedia entry ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

Type: String

Required: No

Headers

A complex type that contains two values for each header in the sampled web request: the name of the header and the value of the header.

Type: Array of HTTPHeader objects

Required: No

HTTPVersion

The HTTP version specified in the sampled web request, for example, HTTP/1.1.

Type: String

Required: No

Method

The HTTP method specified in the sampled web request. Amazon CloudFront supports the following methods: DELETE, GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, and PUT.

Type: String

Required: No

URI

The path component of the URI. This does not include the query string or fragment components of the URI. For information, see Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: