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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...
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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