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Updated Regular expression based filters (markdown)

Raymond Hill 2015-01-26 09:13:22 -05:00
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Regular-expression-based-filters.md

@ -19,4 +19,10 @@ A most-efficient regex-based filter is one which comes with all the following fi
1. type: a filter which apply only to a specific request type will be executed only for request which matches the type.
- Example: `/\.filenuke\.com/.*\/[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}/$script` will be executed only for request of type `script` (this filter is found in _EasyList_)
1. `domain=`: The regular expression won't be executed if the hostname of a request does not match the hostnames declared in the `domain` filter option
1. `third-party`: the regular expression won't be executed if the request does not fulfill the `third-party` option (or it's complement `~third-party`)
1. `third-party`: the regular expression won't be executed if the request does not fulfill the `third-party` option (or it's complement `~third-party`)
An example of a regex-based filter found in _EasyList_ which is handled very efficiently by µBlock:
/http:.*(?:\+|\@|\=|\;|\_|\-|\!|\?|\&|\%|\#|\^|\:).*\/\//$script,third-party,domain=allenbwest.com
This filter contains all the filter options which makes it very unlikely that the regular expression will have to be executed. The regular expression will execute **only** if the request is of type `script`, originates from `allenbwest.com`, and is 3rd-party to `allenbwest.com`.