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NAME

6       ignore.list - websec url monitoring configuration
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DESCRIPTION

9       IGNORE KEYWORDS
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11       When determining which parts of a particular web page has changed, you
12       may want to skip those paragraphs that contains certain predefined
13       words. For example, pages like InfoWorld, PC Magazine and PC Week often
14       contain the current date/time regardless of whether there is new or
15       changed content. In such cases, you can use IGNORE KEYWORDS to skip
16       those paragraphs which contains date/time information.
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18       Ignore keywords are stored in a file called "ignore.list" in the same
19       directory as websec. Like the URL list, the ignore keywords are parti‐
20       tioned into different sections. Each section has a user-defined name.
21       An example is shown below:
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23               [General]
24               all rights reserved
25               an error occurred
26               click here
27               comments
28               copyright
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30               [Date_Time]
31               January\s+\d{1,2}
32               February\s+\d{1,2}
33               March\s+\d{1,2}
34               April\s+\d{1,2}
35               May\s+\d{1,2}
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37       In the example above, there are two sections: "General" and
38       "Date_Time".  You can use them in the URL list as follows:
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40           Ignore = General
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42       You can also use multiple sections at one go:
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44           Ignore = General,Date_Time
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46       If you use certain ignore keywords regularly, you might want to add
47       them to a defaults section in the URL list.
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49       Ignore keywords can contain regular expressions. For example, the
50       ignore keyword "January\s+\d{1,2}" tells websec to look for the string
51       "January", followed by one or more spaces, followed by at least one but
52       not more than two digits.
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54       Two sections of ignore keywords are supplied in this distribution.
55       "General" contains some general ignore keywords which you may want to
56       use. "Date_Time" contains date/time detectors coded using regular
57       expressions. Feel free to add your own!
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59       IGNORE URLS
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61       Most advertisements in webpages are of the following form:
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63               <A HREF="http://page.url.com/advert/cgi-bin/" ...>
64               <IMG SRC="advert.animated.gif" ...>
65               Click here for free beer!
66               </A>
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68       Such advertisements can be ignored when running webdiff using ignore
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71       Ignore URLs are also stored in "ignore.list". They contain all of parts
72       of the URL referred to by the <A HREF> tag which you want to ignore. An
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75               [Adverts]
76               page.url.com/advert/cgi-bin/
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78       Use the "Adverts" section in the URL list as follows:
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80           IgnoreURL = Adverts
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84           IgnoreURL = Adverts1,Adverts2
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86       If you use certain ignore URLs regularly, you might want to add them to
87       a defaults section in the URL list.
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89       Like ignore keywords, ignore URLs can contain regular expressions.
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91       An "Adverts" section is supplied in this distribution. Feel free to add
92       your own!
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SEE ALSO

95       url.list(5)
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AUTHOR

98       Baruch Even <websec@ev-en.org> is maintaining this program.
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