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Redact or remove authentication data from URLs
Download node at nodejs.org and install it, if you haven't already.
npm install redact-url --save
var redact = require('redact-url');
// u:p style
redact('https://suzy:secrets@example.com');
// https://REDACTED@example.com
// sketchy query params
redact('https://example.com/password=1');
// https://example.com/password=REDACTED
// optional replacment string
redact('https://example.com/password=1', 'XXX');
// https://example.com/password=XXX
// clean URLs are untouched
redact('https://no-auth-stuff-here.com');
// https://no-auth-stuff-here.com
// non-URLs are untouched
redact("this is not a url");
// this is not a url
npm install
npm test
MIT
Zeke Sikelianos <zeke@sikelianos.com> (http://zeke.sikelianos.com/)
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Redact or remove authentication data from URLs
The npm package redact-url receives a total of 26 weekly downloads. As such, redact-url popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that redact-url demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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