Typically in a regular expression dollar sign indicates the end of line. In this case it means URLs which ends with pattern ".exe". Ommiting the dollar sign causes blocking of URLs which contain pattern ".exe" in the middle, e.g. "my.exercise.jpeg". --- johnsuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The mime.conf file employs a dollar at the end of > regex for file extensions. > e.g. \.exe$ > > I omitted the dollar in my own blacklist of > filetypes, and the ACL seems to deny the > download of filetypes that I don't want. > > How does the dollar make a difference? > > > > > __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html
