Mojave and the new NEWS application

Question

Hi folks, 
 I have been investigating how to allow the NEWS feature in Apple Mojave to work. 
 Finally tracked down an exception to add the the Apple exception 
 ^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?icloud\.com\.?/ 
 Now I suspect that the \.? is not required because the site appears to be a .com only. 
 Next trick is workout how to allow the new APP Store to access the Apple sites, the exceptions fail, the site rates as IT which I am not blocking even though some sites show as blocked, so I added a specific policy in my WEB policy about allowing IT with http/s, but no joy. 
 Ian

Mark San Diego · Answer

Are you needing to block any apple provided services? If not, maybe just make an exception for 17.0.0.0/8 as apple owns that whole class A.

rfcat_vk · Answer

Hi foks, 
 finally worked out how to provide access to the Apple APP store in Mojave. I have added the following to the APPLE exceptions in the WEB tab.

Apple Update 
 Allows Apple Update without content scanning side effects.

Matching URLs: 
 ^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?apple\.com\.?/ 
 ^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?cdn-apple\.com\.?/ 
 ^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?icloud\.com\.?/ 
 ^([A-Za-z0-9.-]*\.)?mzstatic\.com\.?/

HTTPS decryption 
 Malware and content scanning 
 Sandstorm 
 Policy checks

Ian