[Web4lib] Squid White List?

Mike Taylor mike at indexdata.com
Fri Jul 4 11:18:11 EDT 2008


There is a package called squidguard which builds on squid, and which
you can fairly easily configure to implement whitelists -- which is
what I've done with our little network at home.

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Michael J. Dargan writes:
 > Hello--
 > 
 > Seems to me like the filter capabilities of Squid could be used to create a
 > "white list" filter that would allow me DENY all access to the web and then
 > ALLOW access to my OPAC and a few other sites.  Has anyone else done this?
 > If so, I'd be interested in knowing how you set up your squid.conf to
 > support this.
 > 
 > Also, would I be better off doing this with tinyproxy?
 > 
 > Thanks
 > 
 > -- 
 > Michael J. Dargan
 > Reference & Technical Systems Administrator
 > Waterloo & Cedar Falls Public Libraries
 > hawkeyelibrarian.blogspot.com
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