Rules

Rules

RequestPolicy rules combine 3 items:

• The origin is a domain from where cross-site requests originate.
• Commonly, this is the site you are currently browsing when the cross-site request is done.
• A destination is the domain/group of domains that is the target of a cross-site request.
• Commonly, this can be a CDN, a separate/special domain for static contents or scripts used on a site, or an advertising/metrics/statistics network.
• The policy is the action that RequestPolicy will apply to a cross-site request, depending on it's origin and destination.
• It can be block or allow.

Note: When both an allow and a block rule match a request, the user's default rule is used. (A priority system between rules is considered in issue 491)

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Origin and Destination

The origin and destination components of a rule can have the following properties. All properties are optional. An empty rule property will not be considered when matching against requests.

• Scheme: The URL's scheme (protocol). For example, "http" or "https".
• Host: The URL's host. For example, example.com (domain name), 192.30.252.128 (IPv4 address), or fe80:0000:0000:0000:0202:b3ff:fe1e:8329 (IPv6 address).
• Note: For domain names, you can use a wildcard * to indicate any or no subdomain. For example, *.example.com will match example.com, www.example.com, or a.b.c.example.com. Wildcards are only supported as the leftmost label of a hostname. Wildcards are not supported anywhere else in the name and cannot be mixed with other characters.
• Port: The URL's port. For example, 81 or 8080. This may also be * to indicate that any ports should match. By default, rules that do not specify ports only match the default port for the request's scheme (eg. 80 for http).