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Web filtering is a type of firewall that protects web applications and APIs by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the Internet. It typically protects web applications from attacks such as cross-site forgery, cross-site-scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and SQL injection, among others. Web filtering can also block access to specific types of web content that has been forbidden by the manager.
We need web filtering because web applications are often exposed to the Internet and vulnerable to various attacks that can compromise their security and functionality. Web filtering can help prevent malicious requests from reaching the web applications and web servers, and provide a layer of security that can't be achieved with network firewalls.