[mdlug] OT: squid question

[Kristoffer Marshall]

I personally have not done filtering in squid except for a couple 
ad-blocking programs that work along-side of it. If you want to skip 
trying to configure squid for filtering but would still like to use it 
as a caching proxy server, you may be able to do the old hosts file 
trick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file#Ad_filtering). If 
everyone needs to go through the server, this may work, but I'm sure 
people could just change their DNS server to bypass it if you don't 
block DNS from coming in. I'm not quite sure if it would work, but it may.

You may want to look at this instead though -> 
http://calomel.org/squid_adservers.html
It briefly shows you how to use a separate file for all of the rules, 
and download the rules automatically so you don't have to write them 
yourself. This is of course for blocking ads, but you can use your own 
rules exclusively or append your own so that it blocks ads and 
illegitimate websites.

Dean Durant wrote:
> 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.  
>