Re: [squid-users] hotmail attachment

On 20.01 16:10, Dave wrote:
> One of your users uses hotmail on occasion. She said she started
> getting denied downloading attachment a couple of months ago. I
> haven't changed my squid settings in about a year or so.
>
> I have this rule to block windows executable files...
> acl deny_files url_regex -i \.exe$ \.com$ \.wmf$ \.scr$
> ^(\w+://)?([\w|\d|_|\.|\-|/]*?)\.exe(\?.*)?$
>
> If I remove \.com$ it works.
> acl deny_files url_regex -i \.exe$ \.wmf$ \.scr$
> ^(\w+://)?([\w|\d|_|\.|\-|/]*?)\.exe(\?.*)?$
>
> Anyone know why this rule is affecting hotmail? Another user said she
> could download attachments from yahoo .
>
> Error:
> While trying to retrieve the URL:
> http://by108fd.bay108.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/saferd/pcupdates%2edoc?

uh! Remove all such rules and use squidguard or similar filteringf system.
such regexp's in rules slow down squid and usually cause more problems than
they solve.

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