Re: [squid-users] Ad-zapping redirector causes IE to think it never completes loading a page

From: Herman <Herman@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:39:36 -0600

Hmm, what is the dis/advantage of Bannerfilter over SquidGuard?

Herman

James Gray wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:10 pm, Ken.Thomson@audit.nsw.gov.au wrote:
>
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I am running Squid 2.5STABLE5 and trying to block a few of the more
>>prominent web advertisements that chew bandwidth. The way I have tried
>>to set this up is with i) two acls to match advert objects - one a
>>dstdomain and one a url_regex ii) a short perl redirector which
>>redirects requests for these ad objects to a 1x1 transparent gif hosted
>>on a local server.
>
>
> Seems you're reinventing the wheel. Why not use an off-the-shelf-redirector
> called "BannerFilter"? We've been using it quite effectively for nearly 2
> years without any problems at all. Check it out:
> http://www.phroggy.com/bannerfilter/
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
>
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