Deny

Overview

The Deny policy action allows you to reject incoming requests to your endpoint.

Example

Traffic Policy for returning a 404 response.

YAML

# snippet
---
actions:
  - type: "deny"
    config:
      status_code: 404

JSON

// snippet
{
  "actions": [
    {
      "type": "deny",
      "config": {
        "status_code": 404
      }
    }
  ]
}

Request:

curl https://example.ngrok.app/api/v1

Result:

< HTTP/2 404

---

Behavior

When this action is executed, the upstream server is never reached and a response is immediately made.

If this action is executed, no further actions or policy rules in the policy configuration will be executed.

Reference

Supported Directions

• Inbound

Configuration

Type
deny

Parameter		Description
status_code	int	The status code of the response. If not specified, 999 will be used.