Single Accept VS Multi-Accept lines

[ReporterX]

Try to play a video which requires whitelisting brightcove.com

Example: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -visa.html

The video will play with this rule:

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Site .brightcove.com
Accept INCLUSION from .brightcove.com .dailymail.co.uk
Deny INCLUSION

But none of them works:

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Site .brightcove.com
Accept from .brightcove.com
Accept INCLUSION from .dailymail.co.uk
Deny INCLUSION

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Site .brightcove.com
Accept INCLUSION from .brightcove.com
Accept INCLUSION from .dailymail.co.uk
Deny INCLUSION

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Site .brightcove.com
Accept INCLUSION from SELF+ SELF++ .dailymail.co.uk
Deny INCLUSION

I'm curious.
I thought it was identical by putting both sites in the same "Accept" line and putting them separately.
Why? What is the cause?

[barbaz]

But none of them works:

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Site .brightcove.com
Accept from .brightcove.com
Accept INCLUSION from .dailymail.co.uk
Deny INCLUSION

^^ Strange, that's probably what I would have tried to use.
No time to check this myself atm, sorry, so can you please try this rule, and post here the message you see from ABE in the Browser Console (Ctrl-Shift-J) when it doesn't work?

[ReporterX]

But none of them works:

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Site .brightcove.com
Accept from .brightcove.com
Accept INCLUSION from .dailymail.co.uk
Deny INCLUSION

^^ Strange, that's probably what I would have tried to use.
No time to check this myself atm, sorry, so can you please try this rule, and post here the message you see from ABE in the Browser Console (Ctrl-Shift-J) when it doesn't work?

No problem, and I just tested all 3 ABE codes. Here is the messages:

First (Accept from .brightcove.com + Accept INCLUSION from .dailymail.co.uk)
http://pastebin.com/uYFEzApS

Second (Both Accept INCLUSION but separate lines)
http://pastebin.com/KkCK0SvJ

Third (Accept INCLUSION from SELF+ SELF++ .dailymail.co.uk)
http://pastebin.com/e7bKx1N7

P.S. It hits the anti-spam filter so I have to past the whole message elsewhere.

[barbaz]

OK, I'm not completely sure but I think it's related to the fact the brightcove resource requested by dailymail redirects to another brightcove resource, so if dailymail and brightcove aren't together then ABE thinks the request isn't something you want because one the redirect URLs doesn't match the Accept line hit initially.
(Would be helpful if someone who knows for sure could confirm?)

[Thrawn]

I can confirm that redirections cause ABE to behave differently, and often require the sites to be on the same line.

I ran into this a while ago at work, when following links from our team wiki to a local development server, which then redirected to another local URL. It wasn't enough to have

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Site LOCAL
Accept from <wiki>
Accept from LOCAL
Deny

I had to have

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Site LOCAL
Accept from <wiki> LOCAL
Deny