Re: [squid-users] url_regex to ban sites problem

True.

If you only want to match the host component of URL's, then the
dstdomain or dstdom_regex acl types.

For matching a known domain, the dstdomain is the correct acl to use.

For matching all host names having a certain pattern in them,
dstdom_regex is.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

HUNT_STEVE wrote:
>
> I am blocking popular e-mail, chat and game sites from our users, like
> hotmail. (I know, I am a BOFH)
>
> It works, but too well. I find users cannot do things like search
> "hotmail.com" in Google or e-mail to their hotmail.com accounts from sites
> that have "e-mail this article to yourself" links. This is because Squid
> sees the hotmail.com in the URL.
>
> So I changed the entry in my banned_sites.txt file
> from:
>
> hotmail.com
>
> to:
>
> ^http://hotmail.com$
>
> and did squid -k reconfigure.
>
> But they still have the problem with hotmail.com anywhere in the URL.
>
> Any suggestions? Am I doing my regex wrong?
>
> in squid.conf:
>
> acl banned_sites url_regex -i "/usr/local/squid/etc/banned_sites.txt"
> http_access deny banned_sites
> deny_info sorry.htm banned_sites
>
> Steve Hunt
> hunt_steve@smc.edu
Received on Thu Oct 25 2001 - 13:09:25 MDT