Filter */RealMedia/ads/ does not work in ABP 0.7

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:00 am

Paulfox wrote:Who do we see about that?

mrbene, who hasn't posted since October, 2005, or mcm, I think. They're the first two users and the description thingy below their avatars is "Site Admin".

Edit: I just started a thread about this.. I guess I should PM mcm, too.

pirlouy · Post by **pirlouy** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:59 am

rick752 wrote:If */ads/* is not a shortcut and shortcuts run first, then why is */ads/* taking the hit?

Maybe the shortcut for media/ads is longer than /ads/
What's the shortcut for media/ads ?

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:03 am

pirlouy wrote:Maybe the shortcut for media/ads is longer than /ads/
What's the shortcut for media/ads ?

Shortcuts are always eight characters. If the filter is shorter than that, there will be no shortcut.

pirlouy · Post by **pirlouy** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:07 am

Then /ads/ is shorter than any shortcut, so it's logical it is loaded first, no ?

It's just a supposition...

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:16 am

Yeah.

IceDogg · Post by **IceDogg** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:58 pm

Sorry guys, I had been on top of the spam but yesterday was away most of the day. looks like mcm made registration mandatory now. Should handle most of the spam.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:56 pm

@Peng: Regarding your original question - you probably had a faulty shortcut from before the bug was fixed, any shortcut should be lowercase. This shouldn't happen with any filters you add in Adblock Plus 0.7.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:35 am

Can I fix that without having to delete the filter and lose the hit count (though I guess I could always add it back by editing patterns.ini)?

Fox · Post by **Fox** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:58 am

Peng wrote:Can I fix that without having to delete the filter and lose the hit count (though I guess I could always add it back by editing patterns.ini)?

I think you lose hit count, but you can edit hit counter.
Ps: I did wanna find out what is maximum hit count, so Firefox closed i did go to patterns.ini and tweaked filter hit counter, i don't remember what maximum is, but it's pretty huge number. It was longer than my some long simple filters are.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:12 am

Fox wrote:Ps: I did wanna find out what is maximum hit count, so Firefox closed i did go to patterns.ini and tweaked filter hit counter, i don't remember what maximum is, but it's pretty huge number. It was longer than my some long simple filters are.

2^31-1 (2147483648)? 2^63-1 (9223372036854775807)?

Fox · Post by **Fox** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:09 pm

wtf those are:)
Last one maybe, but i don't remember.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:18 pm

Fox wrote:wtf those are:)

What? Largest signed 32-bit and 64-bit integers, respectively. I think. Might be unsigned, not signed.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:09 pm

@Peng: You can remove the shortcut line from patterns.ini, the correct one will be re-added automatically.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:36 pm

Okay.

I didn't know if shortcuts were created only when a filter first is. Makes sense. Recovering from weird problems = good.

Edit: Yeah, it works now. The proper shortcut was created. Oddly enough, */RealMedia/ads/ and */RealMedia/ads/* switched places in patterns.ini (not just now, it was a while ago).