Re: What format of ttl?

From: Florian Lohoff <flo@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:58:12 +0200 (CEST)

Martin Ibert typed this originally:
> Vladimir Litovka wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Adrian Havill wrote:
> >
> > > > And how I can set *.jp*, for example (thinking about *.jpg, *.jpeg and
> > > > *.jp_)?
> > >
> > > Would a ttl pattern line "*.jp*" stop the ".jp" (Japan) domain as well?
> >
> > Nice question :-) But you may use *.jp..$ to point that this match must
> > be at end of the sting. How often you mean all of country? :-)
>
> \.jp..$ won't cut it because it only catches jpeg files, not jpg files.
> And \.jp.$ is dangerous because it matches http://some.domain.jp/
> (or am I overlooking something?)!
>
> So when you need two patterns anyway, why not use \.jpg$ and \.jpeg$
> ?

I have now modified my access classes like this,
to cover most of the images/image formats, and bins gotten with http protocol.

ttl_pattern ^http:// 1440 20% 43200
ttl_pattern ^ftp:// 10080 50% 43200
ttl_pattern/i \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|xbm|png)$ 5760 50% 43200
ttl_pattern/i \.(zip|lha|arc|arj|rar|tgz|gz|tar|exe|pdf)$ 10080 50% 43200
ttl_pattern/i \.(shmtl|phtml)$ 0 0% 0
ttl_pattern/i cgi 0 0% 43200

Flo

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Received on Wed Oct 16 1996 - 00:58:35 MDT

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