[Web4lib] Squid White List?

[Michael J. Dargan]

Mike--

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> 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.


I fiddled around with the squid.conf until I got the whitelist to work.
Pretty slick and simple--once you get it done.

Thanks

--mike


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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
>  >
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>  > Michael J. Dargan
>  > Reference & Technical Systems Administrator
>  > Waterloo & Cedar Falls Public Libraries
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Michael J. Dargan
Reference & Technical Systems Administrator
Waterloo & Cedar Falls Public Libraries
wpl-reference.blogspot.com