Cookie with whitespace in name as target

Anant Mudambi via mod-security-users <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:52:54 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-security.user
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Hello,
I need to write a SecRule with a particular HTTP cookie as the target to be
removed by a ctl:ruleRemoveTargetByTag. However, the cookie name has a
whitespaces, so a rule like this throws an error:

SecRule ... "id:1000, phase:2, pass,
ctl:ruleRemoveTargetByTag=attack-rce;REQUEST_COOKIES:name with space ..."

I've tried the below options but these didn't work either:

SecRule ... "id:1000, phase:2, pass,
ctl:ruleRemoveTargetByTag=attack-rce;REQUEST_COOKIES:'name with space' ..."

SecRule ... "id:1000, phase:2, pass,
ctl:ruleRemoveTargetByTag=attack-rce;REQUEST_COOKIES:name\ with\ space ..."

Is it possible to do this?
Thanks,
Anant

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/div><div><br></div><div>SecRule ... &quot;id:1000, phase:2, pass, ctl:rule=
RemoveTargetByTag=3Dattack-rce;REQUEST_COOKIES:name with space ...&quot;</d=
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t work either:</div><div><br></div><div>SecRule ... &quot;id:1000, phase:2,=
 pass, ctl:ruleRemoveTargetByTag=3Dattack-rce;REQUEST_COOKIES:&#39;name wit=
h space&#39; ...&quot;</div><div><br></div><div>SecRule ... &quot;id:1000, =
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/div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Anant</div></div>

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