Re: [squid-users] Web Messengers

If you don't want to use squidguard (or another filtering proxy) in
addition to squid, you can use some of it's blacklists and load it
directly on squid with an url_regex, as long as you don't filter much.
I remember that some of the free blacklists had a "chat" category, so
you may want to use one of those to start, then add to it as needed.

Beware though, Squid slows down quite a bit when using big url_regexes

2009/4/23 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
> Jorge Bastos wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm starting to investigate on how to block a plague, that is the web
>> messengers.
>> There's every day more web messengers available, and it's almost
>> impossible
>> to be adding then as a iptables rule to block them, or in Squid.
>> Is there a way to block this in squid, that all get blocked?
>>
>> Jorge,
>>
>
> It's only a plague if you are not billing clients for their bandwidth usage
> :)
>
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Chat
>
> If you know of other clients that go through Squid and can be identified,
> please let me know what and how the ID is done.
>
> Amos
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