[squid-users] Re: Limiting IE to Windows Update

From: Joost de Heer <sanguis@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:03:34 +0100 (CET)

Pedro Timoteo said:
> Hello. I'd like, in a network, to use Squid in order to, eventually,
> limit Internet Explorer to Windows Update (and possible a couple of
> other sites), but give unrestricted access to users of Firefox, Opera,
> Konqueror, etc..
>
> Is it possible? If so, what is the best way?

You can limit a lot with group policies.

A proxy can't reliably detect which browser is used (UserAgent can easily
be faked)

Joost
Received on Wed Mar 23 2005 - 05:57:21 MST

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