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Re: regex for matching urls: msg#00017

apache.mod-security.user

Subject:	Re: regex for matching urls

Peter Wood wrote:

Greetings,

What is wrong with '[a-z]+://' ?

Before regular expression is applied to a piece of data
mod_security performs data normalization and reduces
redundant forward slashes. Thus "http://"; becomes "http:/".

(No, I don't like it either. That's why in 1.9 normalization
will become optional and configurable per-rule.)

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Ivan Ristic
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Open source web application firewall - http://www.modsecurity.org

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