WireMock

You could just use priorities - create your proxy with priority 10, then any other stub will default to priority 5 so will be chosen ahead of the proxy

Then you don't ned to worry about excluding, you can use a general regex pattern for the proxy and a more specific one for the real stubs.

We often develop in WireMock Cloud using an `ANY /.*` proxy at priority 10 to the real API and then adding new functionality in specific stubs.

Let me try this out and I will ask if I have any following question. Thank you so much.

Btw, any thoughts on the ticket that I created - <https://github.com/wiremock/wiremock/issues/2068>

I think this effectively already exists... just let me have a look

Hmm - there is a `notMatching` regex inverter but there's no way to apply it to a url at the moment, only query params, headers &amp; the body.

Seems a reasonable ask; will look into it.