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George_33131
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Nov 01, 2007

Match on ASCII %5F

Thanks to the Microsoft IIS "courtesy redirect" feature, I have a URL being returned that has the underscore converted to the ASCII %5F.

I need to match on the URI containing %5F to send it to the correct pool, but can't quite get there.

I have tried the following.

[string tolower [HTTP::uri]] contains "some%5Furi"

Can anyone let me know of the correct way to do this?

Thanks in advance.
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3 Replies

  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Nov 01, 2007
    Probably the "best" way to do this is to use the URI::decode command to decode those pesky ASCII sequences.

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [URI::decode [HTTP::uri]] contains "some_uri" } {
     do something...
  }
}

    "some%5Furi" will convert to "some_uri" with the URI::decode command.

    Hope this helps...

    -Joe
  • George_33131's avatar
    George_33131
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    Nov 01, 2007
    Joe-

     

     

    That's perfect! I was beating my head trying to get a 'binary scan' to work.

     

     

    Thank you very much for helping me out with this.