Re: [squid-users] Allow walled garden using SQUID?

> I'm currently using squid 2.5 STABLE 13 as a proxy only server for a
> small set of students.
>
> We have added nettrekker.com as an allowed site for students to visit.
>
> NetTrekker, for those unfamiliar with it, is a list of educational
> websites that have been pre-approved and considered "ok" to go to.
>
> The question is, how do I allow these URLs when they are linked
> from .nettrekker.com without adding them individually? Is what we're
> trying to do even possible? Essentially we'd like to allow
> nettrekker.com
> to act as the walls on our garden.
>
> Thank you in advance and I apologize if this is covered in the FAQ,
> and I simply missed it.
>

There is currently no built-in methods doing that with squid.
You will need to pull the domain data out of nettrekker and add it to one
or more ACL files that squid can load.
If nettrekker do not provide a nice download of their list you will have
to create a spider script to scan the site and generates one.

Amos
Received on Mon Oct 29 2007 - 20:45:08 MDT