You can configure URL masking to mask a source URL address.
The masking task parses a URL by searching for the ‘://’ string and parsing the substring to the right of it. The source URL must contain the ‘://’ string. The source URL can contain numbers and alphabetic characters.
The task cannot mask a URL without protocols, such as http://, https://, and ftp://. If the source does not contain a protocol, the task replaces with default values from the defaultValue.xml file.
The masking task does not mask the protocol of the URL. For example, if the URL is http://www.yahoo.com, the masking task can return http://MgL.aHjCa.VsD/. The masking task can generate a URL that is not valid.
You can configure repeatable output when you mask a URL address. You must select Repeatable and enter a seed value.
Note: The masking task always returns ASCII characters for a URL.