If you donĀ“t want any www.facebook.com connections at all you can use the
DNS Forwarder to change its IP to something else...



On 30 June 2010 17:29, Luke Jaeger <ad...@pvpa.org> wrote:

> thanks Jim -
>
> I got the impression from reading the pfsense forum that there is a way to
> block https for specific domains by denying the connect method - am I
> understanding this wrong?
>
> Otherwise I might give WPAD a try.
>
>
> Luke Jaeger | Technology Coordinator
> Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School
> www.pvpa.org
>
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Jim Pingle wrote:
>
>  On 6/30/2010 4:00 PM, Luke Jaeger wrote:
>>
>>> I decided to enable transparent proxy on my school firewall because I
>>> was getting a million requests a day to configure proxy settings on
>>> student laptops.
>>>
>>> But now that I turned on transparent proxy, students have discovered
>>> that they can get to banned sites (like facebook) via https.
>>> http://www.facebook.com is blocked but https://www.facebook.com still
>>> works.
>>>
>>> Can someone let me know how to block these? I understand I have to deny
>>> the 'connect method' but don't see where to do this. Can this only be
>>> done in command line?
>>>
>>
>> You cannot transparently proxy SSL connections. You would have to deny
>> outbound access to port 443 and if they want SSL, they must configure
>> the proxy settings into their browser(s) either by hand or automatically
>> with something like WPAD.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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