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Field extracting using Regex

satishsdange
Builder

I am trying to extract username & password from below event -

form_key=6LgmjzGyzOYLIf11&login[username][email protected]&login[password]=password&send= 

I am able to extract password properly but for username I am getting dev_lee%40gmail.com instead of precise email ID.
Below is my regex

login.*?username.*?=(?<splUsername>.*?)&.*?login.*?password.*?=(?<splPassword>.*?)&

Could someone please help me fix the problem.

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esix_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Try this in addition to the urldecode..

.. | rex field=_raw "login\[username\]\=(?<username>[^\&]+)\&login\[password\]\=(?<password>[^&]+)\&send" | eval mail=urldecode(username) | ..

That should fix you up.

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esix_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Try this in addition to the urldecode..

.. | rex field=_raw "login\[username\]\=(?<username>[^\&]+)\&login\[password\]\=(?<password>[^&]+)\&send" | eval mail=urldecode(username) | ..

That should fix you up.

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Sebastian2
Path Finder

Looks like your event is url encoded. Have you tried to decode it? Try using the buildin urldecode?
When searching your data you could use it like:

... | eval mail = urldecode(mail) | ...
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