Re: [squid-users] Add parameter to all Reques URL?

On 11.04.2012 11:13, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:49:36PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> wrote:
>> On 05.04.12 16:02, Simon Laredos wrote:
>> >I would like someone to offer help on a problem I have.
>> >What I need is Squid add a parameter to the end of all requests
>> made
>> >from the proxy.
>> >Eg, when want to visit the page "http://www.google.com/" in the end
>> >add the parameter "?Something" to make it this way
>> >"http://www.google.com/?something" and that this applies to all
>> >sites, except personal sites.
>>
>> I am afraid this is very dangerous to implement. What exactly do you
>> _need_ ?
>
> At a guess I would say forcing the "safe search" option on to try and
> reduce the number of porn images that come up in a search.

And yet they are asking for adding to "all requests through the proxy"
...
  http://facebook.com/?Something, http://kitten.net/?Something,
ftp://google.com/?Something, imap://gmail.com/?Something

Specifically *all* "sites". When "site" URLs is actually a quite small
sub-set of what actually goes through a proxy. URL alterations cannot be
made to Skype VoIP URLs, video streams, online chat channels, HTTPS
connections, any many other URI types.

As Alex said, doing this is dangerous unless you know precisely and
clearly what you are doing. There are usually safer and cleaner ways to
achieve the end goal. So we need to hear from the requester directly
what *precisely* is wanted and why before we can properly assist with a
solution. URL-rewite is very rarely the best option despite its apparent
ease.

The example hints that it is Google safe-search being wanted, and
unfortunately Google seem not to support the easy HTTP-header way of
passing such limit parameters at this time. If anyone knows other wise
and can point us at the header to insert, please do.

Amos
Received on Tue Apr 10 2012 - 23:42:04 MDT