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# Defang transform action

## Use case

You have a email with a URL in it similar to something like:\
<https://rewst.io/aprilfools/surprise.html\\>
You would like to defang it and make it not directly usable.

## Overview

Given a URL, this action will 'defang' the url by adding characters to prevent it from being directly usable.

## Parameters

<table><thead><tr><th width="217">Parameter</th><th width="417.3333333333333">Description</th><th data-type="checkbox">Required</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>URL</td><td>URL to defang</td><td>true</td></tr><tr><td>Colon</td><td>If true defang colons.</td><td>false</td></tr><tr><td>Dots</td><td>If true defang all dots.</td><td>true</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Usage

<details>

<summary>Example 1: Defang the url https://rewst.io/aprilfools/surprise.html</summary>

Inputs:

Colon: True

Dots: True

URL: <https://rewst.io/aprilfools/surprise.html>

</details>

## Results output

The expected result of this transform is a defanged url.

Result from Example 1:

```
hXXps[:]//rewst[.]io/aprilfools/surprise.html
```


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