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  • 1.  How to allow / handle URL that contains '&' symbol

    Posted Mon April 20, 2020 07:07 AM
    We are unable to see the URL in the probe since the URI contains '&' symbol. Got to know that Datapower doesn't allow '&' symbol. Can some please let me know How to allow / handle URL that contains '&' symbol so that I can been read by Datapower and seen in probe (inbound URL) and service variable (var/service/routing/uri) .

    Example : https://abc.com /v1/change_notification?reference=12bc34&validationToken=12345.
    When I see probe &validationToken=12345 part is missing in inbound URL and nothing is seen in     service variable (var/service/routing/uri) .

    For other symbols like " ?, #‌, ..  "  I see there's direct option in FSH to allow / not allow then but that's not the case with '&' .


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    Nikhil Bachu
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  • 2.  RE: How to allow / handle URL that contains '&' symbol

    Posted Mon April 20, 2020 08:38 AM

    Hi,
    Probe works fine for me, I have a loopback XML firewall with convert-http action.
    Here you can see that curl request outputs what it should:

    $ curl "http://dp3-l3.boeblingen.de.ibm.com:2070?reference=12bc34&validationToken=12345"; echo
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <request><url>/?reference=12bc34&amp;validationToken=12345</url><base-url>/</base-url><args src="url"><arg name="reference">12bc34</arg><arg name="validationToken">12345</arg></args></request>
    $

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    This is Probe URL-in variable with the ampersand:



    Please create a support ticket with service export and instruction on how to trigger the issue you have.


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    Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
    Compiler Level 3 support & Fixpack team lead
    IBM DataPower Gateways (⬚ᵈᵃᵗᵃ / ⣏⠆⡮⡆⢹⠁⡮⡆⡯⠂⢎⠆⡧⡇⣟⡃⡿⡃)
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  • 3.  RE: How to allow / handle URL that contains '&' symbol

    Posted Tue April 21, 2020 01:53 AM
    To my surprise I see issue is only happening when I use CURL request for testing. I'm using the below curl command :

    curl -k -d @JsonSample.json http://10.38.203.1:4843/v1/change_notification?reference=abcd&ValidationToken=1234

    When I use sendtest message utility on probe datapower I see there's no issue at all I'm able to see what I'm passing.

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    Nikhil Bachu
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  • 4.  RE: How to allow / handle URL that contains '&' symbol

    Posted Tue April 21, 2020 05:03 AM
    Are you sure that your shell isn't reading the ampersand as a shell command?
    Try to escape the URL or put it into double quotes.

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    Hermanni Pernaa
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  • 5.  RE: How to allow / handle URL that contains '&' symbol

    Posted Tue April 21, 2020 09:04 AM
    What Hermanni wrote is exactly what happened to me, and I added double quotes around the URL for that reason in my previous posting.

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    Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
    Compiler Level 3 support & Fixpack team lead
    IBM DataPower Gateways (⬚ᵈᵃᵗᵃ / ⣏⠆⡮⡆⢹⠁⡮⡆⡯⠂⢎⠆⡧⡇⣟⡃⡿⡃)
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  • 6.  RE: How to allow / handle URL that contains '&' symbol

    Posted Wed April 22, 2020 07:13 AM
    Yes, That's was the issue. Just placing the URL in double quotes has fixed the issue.

    curl -k  "http://10.38.203.1:4843/v1/change_notification?reference=abcd&ValidationToken=1234".

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    Nikhil Bachu
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