Re: Fwd: Re: [squid-users] restricting sending and recieving files

On Thursday 25 September 2003 9:47 am, kent emia wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:32, Antony Stone wrote:

> > On Thursday 25 September 2003 9:28 am, kent emia wrote:

> > > is there a way to restrict upload and download files from the network.
> >
> > What do you mean by 'restrict'? Do you mean limit the speed at which
> > people can send/receive, do you mean block/allow certain filenames, do
> > you mean allow send/receive for some machines and block for others...?
>
> blocking ....
> send/recieve for some machines and
> other machines(eg admin) can send/recieve

Well, you can certainly do this using ACLs.

However, you have to remember that in HTTP there is no difference between the
GET command which fetches a web page, or an image on a page, and the GET
command which downloads an mp3 file etc.

So long as you're happy to block/allow http for different machines, you can
use an ACL. If you want to allow some machines to 'browse the web' but not
to 'download files', you'll need to come up with a fairly tight definition of
file types which are allowed/blocked.

Regards,

Antony.

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