[RESOLVED] XDA and GoogleAPIs

[Giorgio Maone]

The ABE Rules .pdf
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FAQ 8.10

Fixed. You may need to reload the PDF, depending on your cache status.

[Tom T.]

Thanks for the fast response. IMHO, in the ABE Rules .pdf, the line-by-line contrast of wildcard asterisks vs. globs, and the explanation of the difference, adds greatly to the clarity and the instructional value.

RFE: Any chance of adding a second ? to the ABE GUI, perhaps labeled as, say,

Rules and Syntax ?

or just make a hyperlink of the title,
Rules and Syntax

There appears to be room to do this directly above the WAN IP line.

You may need to reload the PDF, depending on your cache status.

I disable offline and disk caching in about:config, so it wasn't a problem, thanks.

[GµårÐïåñ]

I hate to break it to you but I just verified that the ABE config I posted above is allowing googleapis globally. I switched out .xda-developers.com with another site, and xda is certainly still using it (and things are broken when I disable it within noscript).

First, how did you confirm that?

EDIT;

I finally fixed it.

Site .googleapis.com
Accept from .xda-developers.com
Deny INCLUSION

Apparently the first . is required for googleapis: in the various literature (faq, manual), the . is suggested but examples are often listed without it, this should be corrected.

The . refers to www.googleapis.com xyz.googleapis.com, etc, so yes if there is a subdomain, which www. is still considered one, then yeah that . is need as the domain is rarely just googleapis.com so that fixes it yeap.

Edit 2:

What does "deny inclusion" actually mean?

Deny means everything, INCLUSION means when its an INCLUSION.

[Tom T.]

... Deny means everything, INCLUSION means when its an INCLUSION....

I think OP was asking what INCLUSION meant; i. e. "what is an INCLUSION".
Saying that to Deny INCLUSION means to deny INCLUSION isn't really adding much info.
Hence, I linked to a good, non-tech explanation of that a few posts above.

[GµårÐïåñ]

Sorry, felt inclusion was self explanatory, it means when you include something. So say site XYZ.com refers to something within itself, those are its inclusions, so allow them or not, given they might belong to someone else (some other site). If you allow a site with inclusion, you are saying, whatever it links to is cool with me, but if not, then you are saying, the site is fine but nothing it it includes on it from elsewhere. Make better sense now?

[Tom T.]

OP hasn't been back in three weeks, so we'll assume is happy. The article I linked on the first page of this thread has a really nice explanation, and may be a useful link if others ask this. No need to reply unless there's something missing from the article (for the non-tech user).