[mdlug] OT: squid question

[Robert Adkins]

There is more than one way to deny access to sites.

One method does use regular expression and involves both a deny and an allow
lists.

If you are having trouble with certain areas of an otherwise allowed site,
you can alter the allow entry to include wildcards that will allow any site
that uses a portion of the URL you are having issues with.

I had to do this with a few such sites.

If this is the kind of setup you have, then all you need to do is alter the
text file and then restart squid and the change will begin working. This
isn't a change you need to make in the squid.conf file, so what you are
looking for (again, if this is the method used to block sites) is a line
pointing to a file outside of the squid.conf file.

The directions I had read when I set that up for us strongly suggested that
I put the porn and noporn regex files in the same location as the squid.conf
file, which was /etc/squid/ on my installation.

A quick check might be to see if you have some files just sitting in the
same location as your squid.conf named porn, noporn or allow, deny or some
other similar elements.

-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Dean Durant
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:25 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: [mdlug] OT: squid question
> 
> Hello, here's what I maybe should have asked:
> 
> A user goes to a site, some hotel site.   Nothing wrong yet.  
>  She wants
> to check on the availability of certain rooms for certain 
> dates.   There
> are drop down menus where she can put in the dates she wants 
> to check.  
> She clicks 'Submit' and then gets a 'denied' page saying the page is
> blocked.  The URL has not changed.   I can check the access 
> log and the
> URL is the same.   So why did it get blocked?   All I can see 
> that squid
> does is block by domain name.   I know it can also block by 
> regex, and I
> saw something in the squid.conf file about "query cache cgi-bin /;
> Deny query" (not sure of the syntax).   What is that last one about?  
> I've spent some time studying the syntax of the squid.conf file.   No,
> it doesn't look that hard but I have other things to do.   I 
> mean, I get
> to the ACL section, and there are all these entries, yes it's 
> true, the
> last person probably did not document it that well.    I guess, I feel
> under the gun to learn it quickly.   Sorry if I seem lazy.   I guess I
> can buy the O'Reilly squid book and study it over the Holiday 
> break.   
> Well, thanks for reading.  
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