Re: [squid-users] Skype block

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:47:05 +0200, Giovanni Panozzo <giovanni_at_panozzo.it>
wrote:
> Last year I used the following method: skype is a program which does not

> send a "User-Agent:" header to the HTTP proxy (squid).
> This is not considered a good practice in RFC2616:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.43
>
> So I added to squid.conf the following two lines:
>
> acl validUserAgent browser \S+
> http_access deny !validUserAgent
>
> (this second line must be place/order in the right place on your
> http_access list of squid.conf)
>
> And skype stopped to work (1 year ago... now, really, I'm not sure if it

> still working).

Some versions send the UA "Skype". The latest releases have gone to no UA
at all.
Thank you for this, it will help several people who have been looking for
something to match those new versions.

Amos
Received on Wed Jun 23 2010 - 06:16:18 MDT