What is the best regex to remove the "password" an...
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Mauro caresimo
06/23/2023, 11:18 AMWhat is the best regex to remove the "password" and "autopassword" words from this string and its values?
fuseaction=view.account&aid=40&password=Test&autologin=somuser&autopassword=Test!123
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thisOldDave
06/23/2023, 11:33 AM((auto)?password=[^&]+)(?:&|$)
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aliaspooryorik
06/23/2023, 11:36 AM
Eeek - passwords in URLs?
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thisOldDave
06/23/2023, 11:37 AMours is not to reason why.....
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aliaspooryorik
06/23/2023, 11:38 AM
No, but sometimes people try to solve the symptoms not the cause 🙂
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Mauro caresimo
06/23/2023, 1:32 PMyeah i know 😂 bad very bad!
Mauro caresimo
06/23/2023, 1:33 PMThanks @thisOldDave & @aliaspooryorik 🙏
Mauro caresimo
06/23/2023, 1:54 PMoh one more thing! That worked perfectly but I have an & at the end I need to remove
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thisOldDave
06/23/2023, 1:57 PMremove the final none capturing group (auto)?password=[^&]+
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Mauro caresimo
06/23/2023, 2:17 PM@thisOldDave :#ReReplace(cgi.query_string,"((auto)?password=[^&]+)","","ALL")#>
Doesnt work if I remove that = have I done it wrong?
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thisOldDave
06/23/2023, 2:19 PMNoCase?
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Mauro caresimo
06/23/2023, 2:19 PMTried that
Mauro caresimo
06/23/2023, 2:24 PMWhat about if I do a second sweep so just do right function to remove last character?
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aliaspooryorik
06/23/2023, 2:27 PM
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thisOldDave
06/23/2023, 2:29 PMthisOldDave
06/23/2023, 2:30 PMthe fact we picked tha same variable names freaked me out a bit
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Mauro caresimo
06/23/2023, 2:34 PMThanks guys! Much appreciated!
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thisOldDave
06/23/2023, 2:35 PMthis will remove the & as well if thats what you wanted https://trycf.com/gist/5ac3750a49ce083c1e557fd44919cbec/lucee5?theme=monokai
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aliaspooryorik
06/23/2023, 2:37 PM
this site is dead handy for seeing how teh reg works https://regexper.com/#%26%28auto%29%3Fpassword%3D%5B%5E%26%5D%2B
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Mauro caresimo
06/23/2023, 2:37 PMWonderful cheers guys!!#
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