Cookie-autodelete: Whitelist - please clarify wildcard meaning

[masgo]

Feature

This is more of a request for documentation than a feature request.

It is not clear (for me) what happens when I only whitelist *.example.com but not example.com.

Will cookies from example.com be also whitelisted? So, does *.example.com include examples.com or not. If it does include it, it would be good if clicking on "whitelist *.example.com" would also activate the example.com whitelist button.

[stoically]

I guess a "How expression work"-link somewhere in the popup or preferences to the wiki would be nice to have, since it is explained there: https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/Documentation#enter-expression

[masgo]

Oh, mea culpa. Since so many projects do not use the wiki but work with README.md and other markdown files I did not even check the wiki.

The documentation there is sufficient. Just link the whole wiki on the "About" page, right above "Report issues and suggest features".

Maybe put it also in the README.md of the project.

[webberian]

Thanks @stoically for the Wiki link. However, I'm still a bit confused, since www technically also is a subdomain of example.com.
So even when I'm sure a website only uses the address www.example.com, according to the current Wiki information I would have to use *.example.com if I really wanted to include the www subdomain, no?

[stoically]

@davdavf example.com would not include www.example.com, while *.example.com would include www.example.com, that's correct. What you can do is add *.example.com and after that click the edit button (pen) and change it to www.example.com - which would make it include explicitly only www.example.com.

[ke-d]

If I recall correctly example.com would match www.example.com because the www. is ignored.

[stoically]

Seems like you're correct

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/blob/378732431b2c5cb6c43299b7f3c4c705a092e0f2/src/services/libs.js#L17-L18

Might be worth mentioning that in the wiki as well.

[zekeblue]

Still not totally clear to me. Does *.example.com include example.com? Most often we are presented with both to decide between. If *.example.com is designated as white or gray, does example.com also have to acted on or is that redundant?

Thanks

[zekeblue]

Anyone?

[ke-d]

Does *.example.com include example.com?

@zekeblue Yes

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/Documentation#enter-expression

As for this issue, I just updated the addon listing page to include those links, and I will be mentioning those links in the readme as well as the about page.

[zekeblue]

Thank you for clarifying.