Wish to make a URL header filter work with https and http (Sidki's set)

[dave]

Thanks JJoe. The second filter is just what I wanted. I should have made it clear that I wanted the output to be http. I had no idea that you could directly match the protocol expression (https) in the match. I thought you had to set a variable or something like that.

But I have a question as I'm not understanding the matching expressions in your filter.

At the end of 'youtube.com' is the expression '[^/]+/' and I see it's critical as I tried the filter without that and it did not work when used with the https protocol. I think it did work with the http protocol. I don't believe that expression is ever going to match because I think 'youtube.com' is always immediately followed by a forward slash (/). So I wonder what is the purpose of matching anything but the forward slash when it seems to me that expression will never match.

So I am confused and would like an explanation if possible and if I've made myself clear. Thanks.