Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Get the best of both, use a syntax permitting a "first match-exits" > ACL, single ACE permits several statements ANDed together. Cooking > up a simple syntax for users without much regexp experience won't be > easy.
I assume ACL stands for "access control list", but what is ACE? > One way (probably not the most beautiful syntax) could be a running > number, The numbers are just too ugly, sorry. Also, having *two* instances of +/- (one before the "=" and one after the "=") is just too confusing; it took me a minute or two to figure out. > I realize much of this syntax can be thrown out of the window simply > considering we can probably reach the same effect with uri filters and more > complicated regexp (perl5 syntax): > --filter=+uri:.+\.dom\.com/*.download > --filter=-domain:sweets\.dom\.com > --filter="+uri:peanuts\.dom\.com/.*(?!brown)" > --filter=+path:peanuts That seems much more acceptable IMHO.
