Ryan,

I'm on 2.7.1. 

By "directive" I assume you mean something like SecRuleUpdateTargetById?
Along these lines?

SecRuleUpdateTargetById 973333 !ARGS:/[Hh]tml/


I'll give that a shot. Other ideas welcome.

-m


On 1/31/13 7:06 PM, "Ryan Barnett" <rbarn...@trustwave.com> wrote:

>Matt,
>What version of ModSecurity are you using?
>
>Since you don't need to do this conditionally based on request data, you
>could try just using the directive to remove it vs using the ctl action.
>Just make sure to our this in a custom Ruke file that is read AFTER the
>other rules.
>
>The ctl action should work but you might want to try the directive
>instead.
>
>--
>Ryan Barnett
>
>On Jan 31, 2013, at 7:27 PM, "Matt Mitchell"
><mmitch...@backstopsolutions.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey gang,
>>
>> I know this isn't a CRS issue per se, but I thought you might have some
>>insight before I either dig through the mod_security code or ask them
>>how I should do this.
>>
>> Our application occasionally wants to accept stuff that looks scary,
>>like HTML, from certain form submissions. After some thought, I figured
>>the best way to do this was to make a small change to the application to
>>put "html" in the parameter name, and then use ctl:secRemoveTargetById
>>to whitelist those rules on the way through the CRS rule set.
>>
>> Here's what I tried first, for one particular rule 973333:
>> SecRule REQUEST_URI "."
>>id:1000200,phase:2,pass,ctl:ruleRemoveTargetById=973333;ARGS:/[Hh]tml/
>>
>> But it doesn't seem to work. Everything is being treated as normal.
>>
>> I've used that REQUEST_URI-matching-anything idiom in other rules, so I
>>don't think that is failing to match. My intention is to remove 973333
>>for only those arguments that match the regex. Anyone have any
>>suggestions for me, or attempt something similar? If I can get this rule
>>working, I'd then expect to have additional rules removing other targets
>>that look basically the same.
>>
>> Thanks in advance --
>>
>> -m
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