diff --git a/packages/bruno-common/src/utils/template-hasher.spec.ts b/packages/bruno-common/src/utils/template-hasher.spec.ts
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+import { describe, it, expect } from '@jest/globals';
+import { patternHasher } from './template-hasher';
+
+describe('patternHasher', () => {
+  it('hashes and restore are mathematically reproducible', () => {
+    const originalUrl = '{{host}}.example.com';
+    const { hashed, restore } = patternHasher(originalUrl);
+    expect(hashed).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"bruno-var-hash--163450413.example.com"`);
+    expect(restore(hashed)).toEqual(originalUrl);
+  });
+
+  it('hashes more than once', () => {
+    const originalUrl = '{{host}}.example.{{new}}';
+    const { hashed, restore } = patternHasher(originalUrl);
+    expect(hashed).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"bruno-var-hash--163450413.example.bruno-var-hash-652560383"`);
+    expect(restore(hashed)).toEqual(originalUrl);
+  });
+
+  it('allows custom matchers', () => {
+    const originalUrl = '$name.example.com';
+    const { hashed, restore } = patternHasher(originalUrl, /\$(\w+)/);
+    expect(hashed).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"bruno-var-hash-180907786.example.com"`);
+    expect(restore(hashed)).toEqual(originalUrl);
+  });
+
+  it('ignore unless matched', () => {
+    const originalUrl = '$name.example.com';
+    const { hashed, restore } = patternHasher(originalUrl);
+    expect(hashed).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"$name.example.com"`);
+    expect(restore(hashed)).toEqual(originalUrl);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/bruno-common/src/utils/template-hasher.ts b/packages/bruno-common/src/utils/template-hasher.ts
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+const VARIABLE_REGEX = /\{\{([^}]+)\}\}/g;
+
+/**
+ * Was implemented specifically for request.url where the url might have variables
+ * that might need to be sanitised before being passed to a URL validator that doesn't
+ * allow special characters that bruno uses as variables (`{{var_name}}`)
+ *
+ * The function replaces the input string with a unique hash that can be restored
+ * later by the helper returned by this function
+ */
+export function patternHasher(input: string, pattern: string | RegExp = VARIABLE_REGEX) {
+  const usableRegex = new RegExp(pattern, 'g');
+  function hash(toHash: string) {
+    let hash = 5381;
+    let c;
+    for (let i = 0; i < toHash.length; i++) {
+      c = toHash.charCodeAt(i);
+      hash = ((hash << 5) + hash + c) | 0;
+    }
+    return '' + hash;
+  }
+
+  const prefix = `bruno-var-hash-`;
+  const hashToOriginal: Record<string, string> = {};
+  let result = input;
+  let hashed = false;
+  if (usableRegex.test(input)) {
+    hashed = true;
+    result = input.replace(usableRegex, function (matchedVar) {
+      const hashedValue = `${prefix}${hash(matchedVar)}`;
+      hashToOriginal[hashedValue] = matchedVar;
+      return hashedValue;
+    });
+  }
+  return {
+    hashed: result,
+    restore(current: string) {
+      if (!hashed) {
+        return current;
+      }
+      let clone = current;
+      for (const hash in hashToOriginal) {
+        const value = hashToOriginal[hash];
+        clone = clone.replace(hash, value);
+      }
+      return clone;
+    }
+  };
+}