Regular expression to remove jsessionid from url using java

Question

I need to remove jsessionid from the given url. jessionid is not in the request part for example, I have a url for example

http://example.com/index.do;jsessionid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX?username=example

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Ramsh May 23 '12 at 9:25

1 answer

Bohemian · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-23T09:33:30+0000

Try the following:

url = url.replaceAll(";jsessionid=[^?]*", "");

This will work regardless of whether your url has any parameters, for example, it will work for both of them:

It uses the look-ahead regex to capture (but not including) either ?or the end of an input.