Bug 42882

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Package:           kcookiejar
Version:           KDE 3.0.0 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc 2.95.3
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

Hi

I think it would be enormously useful if the cookie filter had support for (preferably Perl-compatible) regular expressions. For example I could assert the following rule:

^ads?\..+        = Deny

in order to automatically refrain from accepting cookies from domains beginning with ad or ads.

To retain user-friendliness perhaps this support could be enabled/disabled per-rule with disabled being the default. Or maybe even for re support to be the default but only applicable to a rule if any char other than [0-9a-zA-Z\.\-] is present in the domain name - that would probably avoid confusion for less advanced users.

I realise that many people (particularly in a networked environment) would use junkbuster or some kind of proxy to form the basis of such filtering. Even so I believe that features such as these are what tend to positively differentiate the Unix experience from other systems and believe that this level of flexibility should still be available to KDE users who /require/ it.

Furthermore some kind of unobtrusive notification of blocked cookies would be nice (a feature that Micro$oft recently added to IE that is actually /useful/ ... :-).

Many thanks

--Kerin Millar

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)