Opera's URL Filtering Tribulations
April 4, 2013 7:03 AM Subscribe
I'm trying to setup Opera to allow surfing on one site only, but my URL filter is failing me.
Per the kiosk mode instructions, my urlfilter.ini looks like the following.
[prefs]
prioritize excludelist=0
[include]
http://*.opera.com/*
[exclude]
*.*
However, when navigating to opera.com, I get: "Web Address Blocked" -- the block content being the "*.*", according to the Block Content details.
The precedence to the includelist seems appropriate. (I've also tried "prioritize includelist=1".) Otherwise, removing *.* fixes the block but defeats the purpose.
Do you have any other ideas on how I might tweak this? Thanks for your help.
Per the kiosk mode instructions, my urlfilter.ini looks like the following.
[prefs]
prioritize excludelist=0
[include]
http://*.opera.com/*
[exclude]
*.*
However, when navigating to opera.com, I get: "Web Address Blocked" -- the block content being the "*.*", according to the Block Content details.
The precedence to the includelist seems appropriate. (I've also tried "prioritize includelist=1".) Otherwise, removing *.* fixes the block but defeats the purpose.
Do you have any other ideas on how I might tweak this? Thanks for your help.
Response by poster: It blocks regardless of the www.
posted by glibhamdreck at 7:26 AM on April 4, 2013
posted by glibhamdreck at 7:26 AM on April 4, 2013
Hm, I copy pasted your settings into an urlfilter.ini and it works OK here (opera 12.15). So your settings are right, so the other things I can think of are:
posted by samj at 7:51 AM on April 4, 2013
posted by samj at 7:51 AM on April 4, 2013
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posted by samj at 7:21 AM on April 4, 2013