Re: [squid-users] Squid to block P2P apps

On Saturday 27 September 2003 2:15 pm, Mauricio Portilho Cavalcanti wrote:

> I'm using Transparent Proxy to my LAN and i'm trying to block P2P apps.
>
> I read that if i put:
> acl Safe_port 80
> http_acces deny !Safe_port
>
> kazaa will be blocked. I didn't try this yet... will i have normal access
> to internet with this acl?

This ACL will only permit access to servers running on port 80. This is
likely to interfere with your users' web browsing, because quite a number of
legitimate web servers run on things like port 8000, port 8080, and even some
others.

So, it will not cause any problems for web servers running on the standard
HTTP port 80, but it willcause problems if they use anything else. Whether
this is important to you depends on the websites your users try to visit.

Regards,

Antony.

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