Unable to get ABE rules working

[ffreeman]

I am using current versions of FFX and NoScript and was trying to whitelist their site using instructions they had posted at:

http://arstechnica.com/business/guides/ ... acking.ars

If I whitelist google-analytics.com, enable ABE and add the following code to the USER section of ABE, it shows that google-analytics.com is NOT being blocked on ANY site that I visit.

#google-analytics.com if you want to help us see what sections of ars you visit
Site google-analytics.com *.google-analytics.com
Accept from arstechnica.com *.arstechnica.com
Deny

I have even tried removing the accept line and just having the deny to see if I had a syntax problem but no matter what I am putting in my ABE, it seems like my whitelist is overriding it. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks!

[Giorgio Maone]

How can you tell google-analytics.com is not blocked?
If you're looking at NoScript's permissions menu, then you'll always see a "Forbid google-analytics.com" entry (just like it was not blocked) because NoScript permissions (which are permissions to load and run active content) are independent from ABE rules (which decide what do do with HTTP requests) and orthogonal.

The only way to tell whether ABE rules are working or not (beside watching the effects, which in this case means sniffing the network traffic) is searching Tools|Error Console for [ABE] messages.

[ffreeman]

Thanks for the explanation. I thought the permissions were reflective of all rules (including ABE) and therefore it was not working properly. I will reinstate my rules and do some testing when I have a little more time.