RE: [squid-users] deny downloads fr webmails

You could try an ACL using regex on the URL looking for mail and exe or
something similar.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pe=F1a, Botp [mailto:botp@delmonte-phil.com]=20
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 10:12 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: RE: [squid-users] deny downloads fr webmails

Adam Aube [mailto:aaube@firstindependent.net] wrote:

> >I'd like to deny downloading of files fr common webmails like =20
> >yahoo/hotmail. It's the webmail downloads I cannot catch.
> >
> >I only get this kind of log:
> >
> >1056815851.164 934 10.1.1.1 TCP_MISS/200 11237 GET
> >http://us.f138.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter? - DEFAULT_PARENT/10.
> 254.254.6
> >application/x-msdos-program
> >
> >Is it possible in squid to deny such download?
>=20
> Check more log entries for these downloads - do all of them come=20
> from a mail.yahoo.com server and use the ShowLetter script?=20
> Is ShowLetter=20
> used only when downloading files?
>=20
> If so, you could try using a url_regex acl - something like this:
>=20
> acl YahooFiles url_regex -i mail\.yahoo\.com.+ShowLetter=20
> http_access deny YahooFiles

but this in itself is not enough. I would not let them download =
executable
files only. Surely, I would allow them to download textfiles.
=20
> If it were possible, it would be far easier to simply block the sites=20

sorry, cannot do that.

Does anyone know of any squid add-in that does filtering of files in
webmails?

> Adam

kind regards -botp

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