Re: [Gnash-dev] default load policy in gnashrc

[strk]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:20:36PM +0100, Tomas Groth wrote:

> > So, rationale is:
> >     - use 'whitelist' if you want to DENY by default
> >     - use 'blacklist' if you want to ACCEPT by default
> 
> This seems logical to me, so fine by me :)
> 
> I was thinking that maybe we should also support regular expressions (or
> similar) when defining black/whitelist, so that it is easier to block
> communication to standard server name such as
> "violating.your.privacy.[a-z]*.com"...

The manual page talks about "domains" rather then hostnames, meaning
that we should consider the entries as regexp in the form .*.name.
This would make presence of *bo&h* whitelist/blacklist meaningful.
Example:

        blacklist spammers.com
        whitelist special.spammers.com

Any use of regexp-like strings will require us to implement the concept
of a *best matching* line, so that the 'stricter' mathcing is used.
In the above example, www.special.spammers.com would be allowed, altogut
matching both blacklist and whitelist.

> Maybe an option to forbid connections to adresses not on the main sites should
> be implemented as well.

Could you expand this ?

--strk;