Introduction

The functions discussed in this chapter operate at the Metadata and Data stages to allow or deny resources based on specific criteria specified by the function and its parameters.

These functions can be used in both Enumeration and Generation filters in the filter.conf file.

Each “filter-by” function performs a comparison, then either allows or denies the resource. Allowing the resource means that processing continues to the next filtering step. Denying the resource means that processing should stop, because the resource does not meet the criteria for further enumeration or generation.

filter-by-exact

The filter-by-exact function allows or denies the resource if the allow/deny string matches the source of information exactly. The keyword all matches any string.

Parameters

The parameters used with the filter-by-exact function and their description are:

src

Source of information.

allow/deny

Contains a string.

Example

The following example filters out all resources whose content-type is text/plain. It allows all other resources to proceed:

Data fn=filter-by-exact src=type deny=text/plain