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Splunk websense content gateway - URL's containing the ampersand (&) symbol are not been extracted correctly

gjanders
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

This post is for the team managing the WebSense content gateway add on, and for anyone else who experiences this issue.

For the websense:cg:kv sourcetype, the fields are been auto-extracted by the key=value method, as per Splunk's default.
The issue we are hitting with this is some URL's include the ampersand symbol, or &.

Due to this the entries such as:
url=http://pixel.yabidos.com/nflrc.gif?cb=1479701935398&ver=1.0r5&qid=636373f5936373f5930353&p=8CU3827QO...

Beomes many fields, the url becomes:
http://pixel.yabidos.com/nflrc.gif?cb=1479701935398

Which is problematic, we are working around this by creating the extraction:
url=(?P\S+)

But perhaps the application needs an update to handle this scenario.

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gjanders
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The question is actually answered in the post, however I would like a comment from anyone managing the application or anyone else expericing the issue...

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gjanders
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The question is actually answered in the post, however I would like a comment from anyone managing the application or anyone else expericing the issue...

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