RE: disabling adv banners

Would it be really wasted? Can't squid stop transfer after reading content
type from header?
Miroslav

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hno@hem.passagen.se [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]
> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 2:52 PM
> To: Miroslav PRAGL
> Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: disabling adv banners
>
>
> Miroslav PRAGL wrote:
>
> > if result of http://www.adsite.com/cgi.bin/ad.xxx?a=b&c=d
> is imege/gif or
> > image/jpeg then stop d/l and deny access else (it's url of
> ad-ing company)
> > let client follow it
>
> > Is this possible?
>
> Theoretically yes, except that Squid does not (yet?) have any access
> controls which acts on the response. Doing so would however only give
> the benefit to the end user. The bandwidth between Squid and
> the origin
> server would still be wasted.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid hacker
>
>
Received on Mon Apr 03 2000 - 01:34:38 MDT