Problems with block

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Hi Pat,

I’ve got some interesting behaviour going on when trying to use block

I can block a single request ok, but the repeat view is very screwy

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120921_YJ_def1b0c253e14341787935172e4f58e3/

If I attempt to block a whole series of requests it doesn’t seem to work at all

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120921_9S_8dfce08bab8a8ff622764231c90106a4/1/details/

But if I use the script tab to block the requests it’s all fine and dandy

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120921_QG_fe6ff25abc83394c77a3d3bf9c549ad8/

block mmcore.js WTID.js Webtrends.js googleAnalytics.js GAInit.js gw.js telegraph.skimlinks.js WTDcsVid.js b.scorecardresearch.com doubleclick.net wunderloop.net imrworldwide.com chartbeat.com
navigate www.telegraph.co.uk

It’s not causing me any problems but wondering if you had any ideas on what’s happening?

Thanks

Andy

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Thanks, looks like there is a bug in the Chrome/Firefox agent where it parses the block string and splits it up (it only does the parsing when it is passed in through a script). Fixing it right now.

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All fixed, thanks for the report - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120921_KX_6b8e2a3c24751a6ee2d34b83ff0d983e/

If you’re running a private instance and want to grab the latest agent I wrote up some docs on how to do it - https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/private-instances#TOC-Updating-Test-Agents

Thanks,

-Pat

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Cool, thanks, will update my private instance later

5

did this bug come back?

Just ran a test with a space delimited string of items to block, and they were ignored.

@hsiboy

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Shouldn’t be - can you send over the test you ran so I can take a look?

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Hi Pat,

for this run http://www.webpagetest.org/result/121012_HA_e00a7c549352efea913e4a1b4e23a395/1/details/cached/

you can see i had blocked:

Blocked: plusone.google.com statse.webtrendslive.com apis.google.com platform.twitter.com www.google-analytics.com static.ak.fbcdn.net ssl.gstatic.com www.google.com r.twimg.com www.facebook.com cg-global.maxymiser.com cdn.api.twitter.com p.twitter.com www.googleadservices.com googleads.g.doubleclick.net

and yet, the 4th call is to facebook.com

any ideas?

@hsiboy