Re: [squid-users] urlpath_regex doesn't match

From: Marco Berizzi <pupilla@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:25:45 +0100

Christoph Haas wrote:

>Just one hint: Squid is bad at checking the content of HTTP objects. Unless
>you use another proxy

Is there anything better than squid?

>But whatever header field you check: you are always relying on the web
>server administrators classification of files. If you just want to allow
>text/html only and they classify their porn videos as text/html then Squid
>won't know that it's unwanted. And even if the web server works
>half-decently then you might get video/wmv as well as video/microsoft-wmv
>or video/funky-movie-format.
>
>You didn't say what you want to accomplish.

My policy is to block wmv, mpg, avi & mp3 and allow all other traffic.
Received on Thu Mar 16 2006 - 11:25:48 MST

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