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Otter Browser Forum / Content filtering in Otter
I hope that these limitations won't be in Otter. As a first easy solution, it should be possible to specify both inclusion and exclusion rules, which are applied in the order of appearance, just like filters are specified in httrack (http://www.httrack.com/). Thus, if "-" means "exclude" and "+" means "include", it should be possible to specify something like:
+"*" -- include everything
-"*foo.com*" -- but exclude "foo.com"
+"*yourproxy.com/*" -- but include, for instance, "yourproxy.com/foo.com"
Exact syntax is debatable, but in the above filter example, you might have guessed that "*" stands for "arbitrary length wildcard" and "--" for comments. However, the simple fact, that the rules are checked in order of appearance, means, that the filter would already be much more powerful than Opera's.
Implementing some way to specify rules that only apply to certain structural elements of the URL string, like domain or host names, could be delayed to the future.