URL-matching rules are used in various locations within Burp, to define URL-based scoping for various functions, such as general Target scope, the scope of individual functions like live scanning, URLs returning streaming responses, and the scope of session handling rules.
Each URL-matching rule can specify various features of the URLs that will be matched. For a URL to match the rule, it must match all of the features that are specified by the rule. The following items can be configured:
Often, the easiest way to create a URL-matching rule is to copy the relevant URL to the clipboard from elsewhere (either your browser or from a request within Burp), and click the "Paste URL" button on the URL-matching rule dialog. This will create a rule that matches this URL, and also any others that have this URL as a prefix (Burp places a wildcard at the end of the file expression). You can then manually edit the rule if required, to fine-tune the URLs that are matched.
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This release fixes a bug which was introduced in the v1.5rc2 release, and which caused the active scan checks for XSS to fail to execute in some situations