[H-GEN] Help with Regular Expressions in javascript?

[Harry Phillips]

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Peter Arnold wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to include a Regular Expression javascript in my proxy.pac file
> that filters various contraband from (particularly https:) webmail sites
> but I'm strugling somwhat.
> 
> I'd like to filter any (eg) .exe .doc .com .pif files based on their
> appearance in the url 1) intermediatly or 2) at the end.
> 
> The best I can do is:
> 1) var contraband = /\.(exe|doc|com|pif)/i;
> 2) var contraband = /\.(exe|doc|com|pif)$/i;
> 
> This is later run in against the url to return  or 1
> 
> The above dosn't seem to be working (it's rather hard to check) so I'd
> appreciate ideas, alternatives on the RE's above.
> 

I probably don't understand the question but why don't you setup squid 
and ban those type of objects? I am pretty sure it can do that.

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Regards,
Harry Phillips
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