John, On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm having a few problems trying to block file downloads with Squid. I have > a file called 'restricted_files' with the following contents: > > \.7z$ <snip> > \.gz$ > \.gz? > \.gz; <snip> > \.zoo; > > And I have the following setup in my squid.conf: > > acl User1 proxy_auth user1 > acl User2 proxy_auth user2 > acl BlockedDownloads urlpath_regex -i "/usr/local/ITIS/restricted_files" > > http_access allow User1 > http_access deny BlockedDownloads > http_access allow User2 > > Now, if I authenticate as user1, I can download all files with no problems. > However, if I authenticate as user2, and browse to - for example - > www.google.co.uk, cache.log is showing that the following URL's are blocked > because they match 'BlockedDownloads': > > http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-uk/images/logo.gif > http://www.google.co.uk/favicon.ico > > However, these extensions are not in my list! I notice similar results on > other sites, with files getting blocked that shouldn't be. > > Can anyone offer me any help on this? I believe that the following regex will be matching .gif files: \.gz? ? means minimal match so it will match either '.g' or '.gz'. You'll nee d to escape a question mark: \.gz\? Hope this helps, Neil. -- Neil Hillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Westland Helicopters Ltd. http://www.whl.co.uk/ Disclaimer: This message does not necessarily reflect the views of Westland Helicopters Ltd.
