include all, exclude some apple-app-site-association

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Created Apr ’21

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With the new iOS 13 apple-app-site-association, is there a way to include all urls, but exclude a specific partial path?

Code Block         "components": [
      {
        "/": "/*",
        "comment": "Matches any URL whose path starts with /"
      },
      {
        "/" : "/e/*",
        "exclude": true,
        "comment": "Exclude matches any URL whose path starts with /e/"
      },
      {
        "/": "/user/*",
        "exclude": true,
        "comment": "Exclude matches any URL whose path starts with /user/"
      }
    ]

We don't want to have to specify every possible path that our App can handle or include.

But we do want to exclude /user/* and /e/*

Our above settings are still allowing /user/* and /e/* despite the "exclude" : truedirectives. I think the "/": "/*" is too inclusive.

Are we now forced to specify every possible path from root in order to exclude specific ones?

The previous format made it easier to match "paths": ["NOT /e/*", "NOT /user/*", "*","/"]

Do I need to state the exclude commands first?

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JTom OP

Jun ’23

The first rule matching makes it stop and apply the rule (exclusion or not). So you have to have your exclusions first:

      {
        "&#x2F;" : "&#x2F;e&#x2F;*",
        "exclude": true,
        "comment": "Exclude matches any URL whose path starts with &#x2F;e&#x2F;"
      },
      {
        "&#x2F;": "&#x2F;user&#x2F;*",
        "exclude": true,
        "comment": "Exclude matches any URL whose path starts with &#x2F;user&#x2F;"
      },
      {
        "&#x2F;": "&#x2F;*",
        "comment": "Matches any URL whose path starts with &#x2F;"
      }
    ]

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