Category: Request
Purpose: Identifies requests that were referred by a hostname that matches a pattern defined by a wildcardThis type of value supports the use of special characters to establish a pattern. For example, specifying an asterisk within this type of value will match one or more characters. value.
Key information:
The value(s) associated with this match condition may be defined using any combination of numbers, letters, and/or symbols. This type of value also supports the use of special characters.
Each specified value may contain one or more asterisks. Each asterisk will match a sequence of one or more characters.
If the specified value does not contain an asterisk, then it must be an exact match for the referrer's hostname. For example, specifying "mydomain.com" would not match "www.mydomain.com."
Due to the manner in which cache settings are tracked, this match condition is incompatible with the following features:
Sample scenarios are provided below.
The following sample configurations assume that this match condition is satisfied when a request matches the specified value/pattern.
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
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www.domain.com |
This pattern will be satisfied when the request was referred by a URL whose hostname is "www.domain.com" (e.g., http://www.domain.com/index.html). |
|
*.domain.com |
This pattern will be satisfied when the request was referred by one of the following URLs:
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