How to modify access_combined field definitions to include spaces in uri field?

[orion44]

I recently discovered the access_combined field definitions don't properly parse the uri fields if it includes a space. I understand the reasoning as spaces are largely regarded as invalid and should be escaped with %20 – however that shouldn't have any bearing on parsing the result in Splunk.

How can I modify the access_combined field definitions via transforms.conf to include spaces in the uri field?

Example event with spaces in the uri:

1.1.1.1 80 - [07/Aug/2019:21:43:37 +0000] "GET /demo_bin/resource.php?command= space and another space and some more spaces  in between HTTP/1.1" 400 583 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" "-" "-"

[woodcock · Accepted solution]

Here are the details:

| makeresults 
|  eval _raw = "1.1.1.1 80 - [07/Aug/2019:21:43:37 +0000] \"GET /demo_bin/resource.php?command= space and another space and some more spaces  in between HTTP/1.1\" 400 583 \"-\" \"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)\" \"-\" \"-\""
| rename COMMENT AS "This is 'access-extractions' from '/opt/splunk/etc/system/local/transforms.conf'"
| rename COMMENT AS "^[[nspaces:clientip]]\s++[[nspaces:ident]]\s++[[nspaces:user]]\s++[[sbstring:req_time]]\s++[[access-request]]\s++[[nspaces:status]]\s++[[nspaces:bytes]](?:\s++\"(?<referer>[[bc_domain:referer_]]?+[^\"]*+)\"(?:\s++[[qstring:useragent]](?:\s++[[qstring:cookie]])?+)?+)?[[all:other]]"
| rename COMMENT AS "This is 'access-request' from '/opt/splunk/etc/system/local/transforms.conf'"
| rename COMMENT AS "\s*+[[reqstr:method]]?(?:\s++[[bc_uri]](?:\s++[[reqstr:version]])*)?\s*+"
| rename COMMENT AS "This is 'bc_uri' from '/opt/splunk/etc/system/local/transforms.conf'"
| rex "(?<uri>[[bc_domain:uri_]]?+(?<uri_path>[[uri_root]]?[[uri_seg]]*(?<file>[^\s\?/]+)?)(?:\?(?<uri_query>[^\s]*))?)"
| rex mode=sed "s/.*\"\w+\s+//"
| rename COMMENT AS "Let's modify it to fix it..."
| rex "(?<uri>[[bc_domain:uri_]]?+(?<uri_path>[[uri_root]]?[[uri_seg]]*(?<file>[^\s\?/]+)?)(?:\?(?<uri_query>[^\s]*(?:\s+[^\"]+))?)?)"

So you need to create an updated definition for bc_uri along the lines of what I did in the last line above and put it someplace where the transforms.conf will have global scope preferences.

[woodcock]

It is not common for spaces to even exist so you would have to post some sample raw events if you'd like anybody to help.

[orion44]

Updated question to include example event