[Webtest] [webtest][JIRA] Created: (WT-441) Enhance reportSite with an option to prevent traversing of unwanted websites

[Robert Calder (JIRA)]

Enhance reportSite with an option to prevent traversing of unwanted websites
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         Key: WT-441
         URL: http://webtest-community.canoo.com/jira/browse/WT-441
     Project: WebTest
        Type: New Feature

    Versions: Future versions    
 Environment: XP Pro
    Reporter: Robert Calder


Currently, reportSite will traverse through all links from the starting page down to the requested depth. However, real-world web sites have varying levels of depth and links to various external sites (advertising, partners, whatever). These external sites may violate what a particular webTest is verifying on the site under test. It also makes the test run slower since we are wasting time evaluating things we might not care about.  
   
This is obviously not desirable; the option to restrict reportSite to the site under test would alleviate such issues. 
   
One suggestion for implementation: add the ability to specify a regular expression which can filter which sites should or should not be visited. 
  
 

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