SEC-2776: Allow HTTPRequest header to be searched with regex

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James McShane (Migrated from SEC-2776) said:

Currently, there are two request matchers that have individual functionality that I would like combined. The RegexRequestMatcher matches the request url against a pattern, whereas the HeaderRequestMatcher attempts to match a header exactly. I propose a class called RegexHeaderRequestMatcher.

Some use cases:

• Grab the XFF header matching some IP pattern
• Matching a set of content-types for specific request
• custom sites which integrate with Sharepoint search, which searches sites using a searcher that will match some pattern, but no specific name is known.

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James McShane said:

Sorry, this should be in the spring security jira