Defang / Fang URL

Three substitutions across the whole text. The scheme becomes hxxp or hxxps, the :// becomes [://], and every period becomes [.]. The result will not render as a clickable link in a ticket, a chat message or an email client, which is the point.

Yes, switch mode to fang. It reverses all three substitutions, turning hxxp back into http, [://] back into ://, and [.] back into a period. Round tripping ordinary text works, though anything you had written with literal square brackets around a period will come back changed.

No, and this matters. The substitutions run over the entire file text, so every period in the document becomes [.], including the ones in sentences and version numbers. Feed it the indicators you want defanged, not a whole report, unless you want the whole thing rewritten.

Some chat and mail clients linkify a bare domain even without a scheme. Defanging removes the shape those clients usually match, but no text transformation can promise every client will refuse. Check how it renders where you plan to send it.

Close, but not the same rules. Defang / Fang IP replaces every period with [.] and every colon with [:], for IPv4 and IPv6, and does nothing to a URL scheme. Running it on a URL would turn the scheme colon into [:] as well.