Back to the list (we talked privately a little) !

At 12:07 29/11/2001 -0600, Sean O'Neill wrote:
>Apparently, this URL list thing doesn't do EXACTLY what it advertising in 
>the docs.
>
>nytimes.com/realmedia/ads
>
>Doesn't apparently filtering graphics4.nytimes.com/realmedia/ads or 
>graphics4.nytimes.com/RealMedia/ads.  So at the suggestion of someone else 
>on the mailing list I added:
>
>graphics.nytimes.com/realmedia/ads (and a couple of others)
>
>It now filters these add correctly.

You didn't read the documentation well enough (and neither do I ;-). 
squidGuard IS running exactly as it is advertised. I just cut and pasted 
this from squidguard.org documentation pages :

>The domain prefixes www[0-9]? and web[0-9]? are ignored by squidGuard in 
>URL matching. Thus if you have an urllist containing "bar.com/~baduser" 
>then all these URLs will match that destination group:
>http://bar.com/~baduser
>http://www.bar.com/~baduser/whatever
>http://www2.bar.com/~baduser/whatever/bar.html
>but not:
>http://foo.bar.com/~baduser
>unless foo.bar.com/~baduser is in that list too.

In other words, domain matching doesn't follow the same logic as does url 
matching.

--
Olivier Korn.

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