Matching wildcards in URI

Hi Martijn,

You can use a regular expression with matches_regex:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
   if { [HTTP::uri] matches_regex "(?i)^\/test\/.*id\=1234" } {
      log local0. "URI matched regex: [HTTP::uri]"
      pool http_pool
   } else {
      log local0. "URI didn't match regex: [HTTP::uri]"
      pool other_pool
   }
}

The regex: (?i)^\/test/\.*id\=1234

is broken down as:

(?i) - case insensitive comparison

^ - asserts that the following token is the first one in the string

\/ - literal forward slash

test - literal

\/ - literal forward slash

.* any number of non-line break characters

id - literal

\= - literal =

1234 - literal

I believe the regex libary is PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression), but someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

Aaron