The simplest case would be where a university, or any corporate has internal
(or extranet) web servers - but has all users going through the proxy.
They would want to charge for all traffic going through the proxy that does not
match a particular expression:
Rules applied in top-down order:
* Do not fire for *.foo.com
* Do not fire for URLs found in list
* Fire for all URLs
With this kind of negative state rule set, the accounting applies to the
websites that the company feels is chargable, and the administration load in
maintaining the rule list is minimised.
Jesse
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Michael Condry <Michael(_dot_)Condry(_at_)eng(_dot_)sun(_dot_)com> 09/19/00
05:13PM >>>
Jessie-
Yes, negative states should be considered. What if the
rulet language allowed at a not in the pattern expression,
would that work?
Also, do you have some good examples were a negative expression
is key to making it work?
Michael