Additional Utilities¶
- Description:
Simple utility functions for data type validation, domain handling, and data normalisationa specifically with the aim of supporting queries to TIDE and Dossier.
- Requirements:
Python3 with re, ipaddress, requests
Author: Chris Marrison
Date Last Updated: 20200621
Todo:
Copyright (c) 2018 Chris Marrison / Infoblox
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bloxone.utils.
buildregex
()[source]¶ Pre-compile ‘standard’ regexes as used by data_type and validate_XXX functions
- Returns
Compiled regex for hostnames url_regex (re): Compiled regex for URLs
- Return type
host_regex (re)
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bloxone.utils.
convert_url_to_host
(url)[source]¶ Break down URL and return host element
- Parameters
url (str) – Validated URL
- Returns
hostname or ip
- Return type
host (str)
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bloxone.utils.
count_labels
(fqdn)[source]¶ Count number of labels in an FQDN
- Parameters
fqdn (str) – Hostname as fqdn
- Returns
number of labels
- Return type
count (int)
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bloxone.utils.
data_type
(qdata, host_regex, url_regex)[source]¶ Validate and determine data type (host, ip or url)
- Parameters
qdata (str) – data to determine type/validity
host_regex/url_regex (re) – pre-compiled regexes
- Returns
data type of qdata (“ip”, “host”, or “url”)
- Return type
dtype (str)
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bloxone.utils.
get_domain
(fqdn, no_of_labels=2)[source]¶ Take FQDN and return n label domain or fqdn if no. of labels is 2 or less
- Parameters
fqdn (str) – Hostname as fqdn
no_of_labels (int) – Number of labels to return default = 2
- Returns
N label domain name or fqdn
- Return type
domain (str)
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bloxone.utils.
normalise
(item, itype=None, port=False, www=False)[source]¶ Take ip, host or url item process and return normalise data.
- Parameters
item (str) – item to normalise
itype (str) – One of [“host”, “url”, “ip”]
port (bool) – stip port number e.g. :8080
www (bool) – strip www. from hostname
- Returns
Normalised item or “invalid”
- Return type
normalised (str)
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bloxone.utils.
reverse_labels
(domain)[source]¶ Reserve order of domain labels (or any dot separated data, e.g. IP)
- Parameters
domain (str) – domain.labels
- Returns
labels.domain
- Return type
rdomain (str)
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bloxone.utils.
strip_host
(fqdn)[source]¶ Take FQDN and strip first label or fqdn if no. of labels is 2 or less
- Parameters
fqdn (str) – Hostname as fqdn
- Returns
stripped domain down to two labels
- Return type
domain (str)
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bloxone.utils.
validate_fqdn
(hostname, regex)[source]¶ Validate input data is a legitmate fqdn
- Parameters
hostname (str) – fqdn as a string
- Returns
Return True for valid and False otherwise
- Return type
bool