SimpleDecodingTool

Because it can sometimes be hard to see, why a regexp in ModSecurity matches a request which is url-encoded the following helper provides a way to url-decode strings. It's just a wrapper around the commons-codec to convert between normal- and url-encoding using commons-codec-lib.

You can download it here.

Easy to start - easy to use: On OS X and Windows just double-click the jar-file or else start it by

java -jar sdt.jar

There is also an applet-version of the tool, that can be tried instantly.