Re: [squid-users] Ad-zapping redirector causes IE to think it never completes loading a page

From: James Gray <james_gray@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:37:47 +1000

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:10 pm, Ken.Thomson@audit.nsw.gov.au wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am running Squid 2.5STABLE5 and trying to block a few of the more
> prominent web advertisements that chew bandwidth. The way I have tried
> to set this up is with i) two acls to match advert objects - one a
> dstdomain and one a url_regex ii) a short perl redirector which
> redirects requests for these ad objects to a 1x1 transparent gif hosted
> on a local server.

Seems you're reinventing the wheel. Why not use an off-the-shelf-redirector
called "BannerFilter"? We've been using it quite effectively for nearly 2
years without any problems at all. Check it out:
http://www.phroggy.com/bannerfilter/

Cheers,

James
Received on Tue Oct 26 2004 - 01:38:06 MDT

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