[Privoxy-users] url: metrics.* being blocked

[Ian Silvester]

Hi Klavs,

My take is that the default blocking was compiled back in the relatively 'innocent' days of the web, when "metrics" would always have implied something sinister - before the advent of the concept of web applications and such. You're of course free to modify your own configuration to remove that rule from the default or match-all actions files or, better, suggest a modified unblocker rule that allows results from the tool you use to be added into the default files.

Cheers,

Ian

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, at 04:18, Klavs Klavsen wrote:
> I can see that default config i my privoxy (ubuntu 18.04) - has this:
> 
> # Blocked URL = http://metrics.performancing.com/
> metrics.
> 
> 
> Which blocks everything starting with metrics. - and NOT just the site 
> mentioned :(
> 
> This hurt me-  as I needed to get metrics from my influxdb backend (as 
> grafana pulls metrics from stuff) - and it seems a bit careless, to 
> simply disallow ANY domain with metrics first ?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - kl at vsen.dk - http://www.vsen.dk - Tlf. 61281200
> 
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