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Rich_Caldwell_7
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Oct 12, 2007

Logging after built-in Variable modification

I noticed that after modifying a built in variable such as [HTTP::uri], when you try to log the change, it does not log the new value. See below in my code, where I change the value of [HTTP::uri], t...
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hooleylist
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Oct 22, 2007
As you found, some of the values are cached for performance reasons. I haven't seen a complete list of which are though. Unfortunately, if you want to log the modified version, you'd need to perform the function twice. Here's an example which sets the path to lowercase and logs the change:


when HTTP_REQUEST {
    modify the path, set it to lowercase
   HTTP::path [string tolower [HTTP::path]]
    now log the change
   log local0. "path changed to: [string tolower [HTTP::path]]"
}

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