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URL Encoding in fields and values

DanielFordWA
Contributor

There are a number of fields that contain values that have had certain characters encoded.

I would like the below URL Encoding reference table applied to all fields and values, what would be the best way to go about this?

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

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chris
Motivator

You can use the urldecode function for eval if you want to apply this to searches:

basesearch | eval decoded_field=urldecode(encoded_field)

Or you can also set this up in props.conf to do it automatically (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Propsconf):
EVAL-decoded_field=urldecode(encoded_field)

I do not think, that there is an easy way to apply this to all fields though

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chris
Motivator

You can use the urldecode function for eval if you want to apply this to searches:

basesearch | eval decoded_field=urldecode(encoded_field)

Or you can also set this up in props.conf to do it automatically (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Propsconf):
EVAL-decoded_field=urldecode(encoded_field)

I do not think, that there is an easy way to apply this to all fields though

DanielFordWA
Contributor

Thanks for the response.

The data is imported in iis-2 format. During search I use “extract auto=true” to get each field from the cs_uri_stem as these fields are not automatically captured when indexing.

If I alter the props config will it change all encoding in the cs_uri_stem?

There are two parameters in the cs_uri_stem I would not want to decode.

The eval function in search does work but I would like to do it at the indexing stage.

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DanielFordWA
Contributor

Before (current)

DocTitle
You%20all%20ready%20for%20this%20%3F

After (desired result)

DocTitle
You all ready for this ?

Nearly all fields that search returns I would want this sort of conversion applied, there are only two exceptions I can think of.

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barakreeves
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Sorry, kindda confused. Could you please provide a simple before and after picture of what you want to accomplish? I think I know but I don't want to make any assumptions with your use case.

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