Alright, I'm hoping the collective wisdom here can help me untangle this. I’ve been banging my head against the wall for two days trying to integrate Radware's behavioral bot detection with our React single-page application (SPA), and the silent failure is driving me nuts. The documentation feels like it's written for a traditional multi-page site, and the SPA guidance is... sparse.
Here’s my setup: We’ve got a modern React app (using React Router v6) hosted on AWS, with a CloudFront distribution in front. The app makes API calls to a separate backend service. I’ve followed the steps to insert the Radware script snippet into our index.html and configured the path rules as I understand them. The script loads, I see the network call to the Radware endpoint, but it never seems to generate a challenge or even log a definitive block when I test with simple bot simulation tools. It's like it's a spectator, not a participant.
My current configuration in the Radware portal for the application looks roughly like this (sanitized):
```json
{
"applicationUrls": ["https://myapp.example.com"],
"detectionMode": "monitoring_and_protection",
"spaSupport": "enabled",
"excludedPaths": ["/api/*", "/healthcheck"]
}
```
And the script snippet is placed right before the closing `` tag:
```html
(function() {
var radwareBotManager = document.createElement('script');
radwareBotManager.type = 'text/javascript';
radwareBotManager.async = true;
radwareBotManager.src = 'https://myapp.example.com.radwarebotmanager.com/.../botmanager.js';
(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(radwareBotManager);
})();
```
The specific pain points I can't figure out:
* **Route Changes:** In an SPA, navigation happens via `history.pushState`, not full page loads. Does the Radware script automatically re-evaluate on route changes, or do I need to manually trigger something? I saw a vague reference to a `radwareBotManager.trigger()` in an old community post, but no official docs.
* **API Call Protection:** The main goal. Our `/api/*` endpoints are excluded from the path-based checks because they're not HTML. How does the behavioral detection link a malicious *browser session* on the SPA to the subsequent API call? Is there a token or header I need to propagate from the SPA context to our API gateway?
* **Testing:** What's a reliable way to test this in a development environment? I've tried using Puppeteer with some basic automation patterns, but it just sails through.
Feels like I'm missing a crucial piece of glue logic. Has anyone successfully wired this up with a modern SPA framework? Any insight into the actual event flow between the client-side script, the Radware cloud, and how it communicates threat decisions back to protect API endpoints would be a lifesaver.
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