Re: [squid-users] how to block "octet-stream"

The Squid-2.5 development version allows you to block content based on
the returned mime type.

However, I do doubt that you want to block application/octet-stream
without having a large exception list.. (just as you would need if
blocking on extention).

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Carl wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I need your great help! I found that there are many lines in my access.log like the following:
> 
> 988509811.753 45 166.111.173.121 TCP_MISS/200 8557 GET http://www.1-ok.com/xiaoyao/peach2.swf - DIRECT/210.77.151.8 application/octet-stream
> 
> These operations greatly worsen the hit% of my cache so that I want to block 'octet-stream'. It's not a good way to block it by file extention (like .swf) for the reason that there are so many file types can cause 'octet-stream' such as .exe, .cab, .dll, .dat, .cif. .vbs, .class and so on. Furthermore, it is not feasible to block all the files have the extentions above.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to deal with this problem? Please help me. I need your kind hand!
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Carl