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TMWS supports three match modes for customized URL categories.
Match Mode
Description
Web
Match URLs from a domain: Looks for a specific website and all its subsites.
Guidelines:
  • There is no need to include http:// or https:// in the URL because it is automatically stripped.
  • Typing a website (URL with the domain name) includes all its subdomains, directories, and files. In this case, there is no need to add a wildcard character (such as an asterisk) at the end of the domain as TMWS automatically adds it.
    For example, example.com matches:
    • example.com/content/file.htm
    • example.com.jp/content/file.htm
    • app.example.com.jp/content/file.htm
    • appexample.com.jp/content/file.htm
    • appexample.coment.com/content/file.htm
  • To limit the scope to the subdomains of a domain, add a period (.) before the domain name.
    For example, .example.com matches app.example.com/content/file.htm but not appexample.com /content/file.htm.
  • To limit the scope to the directories of the domain, add a slash (/) after the URL.
    For example, www.example.com/ matches www.example.com/content/file.htm but not www.example.coment.com /content/file.htm.
Keyword
Match URLs containing a keyword: Looks for occurrence of the keyword anywhere in a URL.
For example, sex would be considered a match for http://www.example/content/sexton.htm.
TMWS automatically adds an asterisk (*) at the beginning and end of a keyword. As such, exercise caution when adding extra asterisks to the keyword as this increases the chance of false-positives.
String
Match a URL: Limits the search to the input as a whole. Use strings to target a specific website, page, or file.
The main differentiation among the three types of match modes is the way TMWS transforms the input values provided by administrators, and TMWS uses three different icons to distinguish them.
General guidelines:
  • Separate multiple entries with spaces.
  • Multi-byte encoded and non-ASCII characters are accepted.
    URL Input Type
    Examples
    Web (Internationalized domain names)
    عربي.امارات
    Keyword
    κήπος
    उद्यान
    String
    網路家庭.tw/
  • Characters are case-insensitive.