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

[Klavs Klavsen]

I was hoping you guys was on an open git repo somewhere, so I could do a 
pull request :)

But I would suggest the metrics block - be changed to hit ONLY the exact 
domain that the comment says it blocks ?


Ian Silvester wrote on 27.03.2020 20.20:
> 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
>>
>> "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
>>     --Henry Spencer
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Regards,
Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - kl at vsen.dk - http://www.vsen.dk - Tlf. 61281200

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
   --Henry Spencer