does a basic rule block the domain part of a url

[andynuss]

Hi,

Newbie question on a basic rule.

Lets say one has a rule such as:

ad

Will this block the url:

http://adversity.org/123.gif

or does a basic rule apply only to the pathinfo and query string of a url?

Andy

[mapx]

add this filter

Code: Select all

nn

and see the effect on cnn.com

[lewisje]

The answer is that it applies to the whole URL except the fragment identifier (because fragment identifiers aren't part of HTTP requests), and if you don't explicitly put special characters at the start and end, it acts as if you had put asterisks there (if your pattern starts and ends with a slash and you don't want it to be treated like a regex, put a star after the last slash).