HTTP::uri regex

Question

Haveing a little problem matching a uri in my rule. When a user comes in useing the the following url http://www.deere.com/deerecom/farmers+and+ranchers/publications we want them redirected to redirect to http://www.deere.com/en_US/compinfo/publications/john_deere_publishing/index.html 
&nbsp; below is a snip of the rule that does the redirect for the above link. Any help would be great. 
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&nbsp; elseif { [HTTP::uri]  matches_regex "^/deerecom/farmers+and+ranchers/publications"} { 
&nbsp;   redirect to "http://www.deere.com/en_US/compinfo/publications/john_deere_publishing/index.html"

unruley_95363 · Answer

Because the uri has some special characters, you may want to use "[URI::decode [HTTP::uri]]" instead of just "[HTTP::uri]".  This will make sure that any "%2b" strings are converted into '+' before performing the regex match.  Also, the + character is a regex special character, so you may want to escape it with \ ('+' means match the preceding character one or more times).  As you are not really doing a regular expression but simply a character match, you may alternatively want to simply use "starts_with" as in:  
    
  elseif { [URI::decode [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/deerecom/farmers+and+ranchers/publications" } {  
     ...

richard__harlan · Answer

I gave that a try and it is still falling through the rule and hitting the default pool. Anything else you can think of? Thanks 
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&nbsp; elseif { [URI::decode [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/deerecom/farmers+and+ranchers/publications" } {

unruley_95363 · Answer

Did you try logging the result of [URI::decode [HTTP::uri]] to make sure it's what you think it is?

joe_pruitt · Answer

You might try logging the uri to see what's coming in and make sure it's identical to your starts_with statement.  Odds are there is something amiss with those '+' characters. 
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&nbsp; -Joe

richard__harlan · Answer

I did the logging and it was comming back at  /deerecom/farmers and ranchers/publications, I took out the + and the rule work fine. Thanks you guys are great.

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