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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> writes:
> Adzapper. It has many many regexps matching URLs. (Actually a more
> globlike syntax, but it gets turned into a regexp.) You plug it into
> your squid proxy.

Oh cool, is that out there in circulation?

It sounds like the approach of merging all the regexes into one and
compiling to a FSM could be a big win.  I wouldn't expect too big a
state space explosion.