[HTTPS-Everywhere] problem with google help forum URL

[Seth David Schoen]

https-everywhere at lists.grepular.com writes:

> Looks like everything including and below
> "http://www.google.com/support/forum" needs to be excluded. There's an
> explicit rule for "https://www.google.com/support/" in Google.xml, so
> I'd suggest the following exclusion addition to the same ruleset:
> 
> <exclusion pattern="^http://www\.google\.com/support/forum([\?/].*)?$"/>

I committed that version of the exclusion, and it's working properly
(if you replace the rule in chrome/content/rules).  Is there any
advantage to this over

<exclusion pattern="^http://www\.google\.com/support/forum([\?/])?"/>

(which feels more natural to me)?

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Seth Schoen
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