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.