More options for URL filtering/cleaning

Hello. I was looking for Clean Links replacement and found this great extension. But I think it can be improved in terms of link cleaning. A few suggestions:

• Global URL parameters filtering (for any url, even without rules). At the moment parameters are only removed from requests that match any “Filter” rule . I tried to add a global filter rule with Pattern: Any URL, but it doesn’t work;
• Two global whitelists for hosts and paths or even better -> see the next paragraph;
• Ability to use multiple hosts and paths in rules. And instead of ‘Include subdomains’ checkbox, just use wildcard *. Often redirection/affiliate links use identical schemes (?r=, ?url=), so creating separate rules for each host is excessive. Also one could create a whitelist rule with multiple hosts - no need for a separate global whitelist;
• Wildcard support for URL parameters (like utm_*, ref_*). Not really necessary though.

Here is a concept: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/h131h58h6aoiqc4/requestcontrol2.png

Also a question. Which regex flavor is used in this extension? Javascript? I’m trying to create a redirection rule to get direct links to Dropbox, but I can’t get it to work. Here is the rule: {href/.*www\.dropbox\.com(\/s\/.+\/.+)\?dl=\d/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com$1} Test link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h131h58h6aoiqc4/requestcontrol2.png?dl=0

– To do list for these:

• Fix url parameter filtering for global rules.
• Fix redirection url parsing from a query string (remove trailing query parameters).
• Change global url parameter trimming to Filter rule specific.
• Add a button to toggle redirection cleaning for “Filter” action.
• Add Wildcard support for URL parameters (like utm_, ref_).
• Use only * instead of ‘Include subdomains’ checkbox.
• Add support for including multiple match patterns for rules.

note the rules priority issue.

[tumpio]

Ok, it’s here now: https://github.com/tumpio/requestcontrol/wiki/Testing-page-for-redirection-filtering

The wiki is public so you are able to edit it directly.

[tumpio]

Nice! I didn’t even know that addon couldn’t process multiple rules.

Yeah, I finally figured out how to work around the webRequest API limitation. It’s a big change in background but should not affect anything else.