https limitations

[Preston Crow]

I've been having a horrible time trying to block an ad on a site by directory using shExpMatch(url,"*/directory/*) along with a host match.  The ads keep coming through.  I finally figured it out, but it looks like I'm stuck.  On https sites, the url passed to the PAC file doesn't have anything past the hostname.  I think this is a dead end now.

[John LoVerso]

Stripping of the path for https URLs started a while ago.  For Chrome and FireFox you have to enable a setting to restore the full path being passed to FindProxyForURL():

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Proxy_servers_and_tunneling/Proxy_Auto-Configuration_(PAC)_file

John

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Preston Crow <prest...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been having a horrible time trying to block an ad on a site by directory using shExpMatch(url,"*/directory/*) along with a host match.  The ads keep coming through.  I finally figured it out, but it looks like I'm stuck.  On https sites, the url passed to the PAC file doesn't have anything past the hostname.  I think this is a dead end now.

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[John LoVerso]

FWIW, this was the same problem in the "broken by Firefox 51" message.