Re: [squid-users] Help on acl regarding execs

From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@dont-contact.us>
Date: 01 Aug 2001 11:24:14 +1000

On 01 Aug 2001 09:31:04 +0800, "Peņa, Botp" wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> I am trying to dis-allow the downloading/executing of executable files and I
> have the ff on squid.conf:
>
> acl ban_exec urlpath_regex [-i] \.exe$ \.bat$ \.com$ \.pif$ \.lnk$
> http_access deny ban_exec
>
> This works but it works strictly. A lot of pages do not show up (w access
> denied message).
>
> What I want is that, squid will only disallow at the point that the user is
> trying to download/execute the file.
>
> Maybe some of you have other ways/solutions?

I think this was answered about 3 days ago - you need to set policy on
your workstation...

to squid there is _no_ difference between viewing a page and downloading
a fiel and running a file. So squid cannot discriminate between those
actions.

Rob

> Again, thanks in advance,
> -botp
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 31 2001 - 19:35:56 MDT

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