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Valid URL Patterns
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Explanation
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Any substring of a URL that includes the host/path separating slash
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http://www.google.com/
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Any page on www.google.com using the HTTP protocol.
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www.google.com/
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Any page on www.google.com using any supported
protocol.
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google.com/
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Any page in the google.com domain.
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Any suffix of a string. You specify the suffix with the $ at the end of the string.
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home.html$
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All pages ending with home.html.
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.pdf$
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All pages with the extension .pdf.
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Any prefix of
a string. You specify the prefix with the ^ at the beginning of
the string. A prefix can be used in combination with the suffix
for exact string matches. For example, ^candy cane$ matches the
exact string for "candy cane."
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^http://
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Any page using the HTTP protocol.
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^https://
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Any page using the HTTPS protocol.
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^http://www.google.com/page.html$
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Only the specified page.
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An arbitrary substring of a URL. These patterns are specified using the prefix "contains".
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contains:coffee
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Any URL that contains "coffee."
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contains:beans
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Any URL that contains "beans."
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Exceptions denoted by - (minus) sign.
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candy.com/
-www.candy.com/
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Means that "www.chocolate.candy.com" is a match,
but "www.candy.com" is not a match.
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Regular expressions from the GNU Regular Expression library.
In the appliance,
regular expressions:
(1) are case sensitive (unless you specify "regexpIgnoreCase:")
(2) must use two escape
characters (backslashes "\\") when reserved characters are added
to the regular expression.
Note: regexp: and regexpCase: are equivalent.
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regexp:-sid=[0-9A-Z]+/
regexp:http://www\\.example\\.google\\.com/.*/images/
regexpCase:http://www\\.example\\.google\\.com/.*/images/
regexpIgnoreCase:http://www\\.Example\\.Google\\.com/.*/IMAGES/
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See the GNU Regular Expression library.
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Comments
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#this is a comment
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Empty lines and comments starting with # are permissible. These comments are removed from the URL pattern and ignored.
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Rules for Valid URL Patterns