Any URL pattern you can create with regular expressions can be included in a template. The following table lists the default resources and provides some ideas for other templates. All FTP requests. All Gopher requests. Any URL going to a computer in the .edu domain.
Templates adhere to a hierarchy when a URL matches more than one template.
The proxy determines the longest template based on the number of characters in the regular expression. Usually, this means the more specific template is used, but this isn't always the case. For example, you might have one template with a regular expression that is 15 characters long and another that is only 12 characters, but the shorter regular expression is actually more specific than the longer one. The following two regular expressions illustrate this point.