Security

Configuring X-XSS-Protection security header

splunk_kk
Path Finder

Hello Team,

I am quite new here. Just wanted to know that where can we configure X-XSS-Protection security header in Splunk?

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mitch_1
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Starting in Splunk 6.6 (released today) you can add custom HTTP response headers by setting replyHeader.NAME=VALUE in web.conf. See the web.conf.spec file for details.

This setting isn't available if you're running in the deprecated legacy appserver mode (i.e. appServerPorts=0) Hopefully nobody is still doing that, though.

splunk_kk
Path Finder

Hi Jeremiah,

Yes, correct

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Jeremiah
Motivator

Do you mean that you want to add the header to Splunk Web, so that the server sends that header to client browsers?

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