Lab 4.4 - Browser Extension

The browser extension takes the posture data generated by the Access Guard service and converts it to a header.

Task - View the installed Extension

  1. Open Chrome and enter chrome://extensions to see that the F5 Access Guard extension is installed. The extension is download and installed via a browsers extension store.

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  2. Open Developer Tools by navigating to settings >> More Tools >> Developer Tools.

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  3. Access the website https://basic-iap.acme.com

  4. Click on the request basic-iap.acme.com under the network tab.

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  5. Under the Request Headers section of the request you will see an injected header called f5-client-information. This is the signed posture assessment data being sent to the BIG-IP on every request.

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