Re: viewing files in the process of downloading

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jens-S. Voeckler wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Michael Vincent K. Pozon - CompE wrote:
>
> ]basically , i want to cut those downloaders who are downloading certain
> ]files especially mp3s. is there any way to automatically and manually do
> ]this ?
>
> Even using an ACL won't help. I found that some of my users went to
> geocities.com in excess (or I wouldn't have noticed), and there was a
> multitude of *.xls files, which were in essence password encrypted RAR
> files containing MP3 payloads. The RAR coding w/ xls extension makes it
> almost impossible for filters to recognize the MP3 payload, and many
> firewalls might let it pass, too.

If people use customized software like Napster, iMesh or Gnutella, it
won't go through port 80. So, you can't stop something like that with
Squid. I hadn't heard about the *.xls files. Clever.

Russell Mosemann, Ph.D. * Computing Services * Concordia University, Nebraska
Received on Wed Jun 07 2000 - 07:17:33 MDT