Re: [squid-users] Content filtering (aka SafeSearch) using Squirm URL rewriting

From: Marcus Kool <marcus.kool_at_urlfilterdb.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:31:07 -0200

Leonardo,

I suggest to look at ufdbGuard. It is a free URL filter with
additional security features and SafeSearch enforcement for
many search engines.

Marcus

Leonardo wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a working install of Squid 3.1.7 with Squirm 1.0-BetaB, which
> provides URL rewriting. The Squid proxy is used in a school
> environment and we'd like to use Squirm to block adult-oriented search
> results.
> So far, the only search engine I discovered doing that is Google,
> which can be set to SafeSearch by appending `&safe=active' to the
> search URL.
> Other search engines like Yahoo!Search, Bing, Altavista, and Ask seem
> to provide SafeSearch just as a client-enabled setting (which is not
> only impossible to manage in a centralized way, but can also easily be
> bypassed by the user).
> Anyone of you has successfully managed to use Squid+Squirm to enforce
> SafeSearch, and/or happen to know the URL parameters for other search
> engines?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Leonardo
>
>
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