Re: [squid-users] Blocking HCP?

From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:47:38 -0700

2010/6/11 Henrik Nordström <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>:
> fre 2010-06-11 klockan 11:02 -0700 skrev Kurt Buff:
>> All,
>>
>> I've been biggling around teh interwebs, and crusing through the faqs
>> and manuals, and don't see how to block this protocol.
>
> Not much Squid can do about this. It's a local exploit on the Windows
> workstation when the browser, email program or whatever that processes
> URLs in any context sees specially crafted hcp:// URLs.
>
> Regards
> Henrik

I was hoping that squid could detect the urls in web pages and either
block the entire page or elide that url.

Understood that this is a local exploit, and that squid won't do
anything for urls in emails, Word documents, etc.

Kurt
Received on Fri Jun 11 2010 - 18:47:39 MDT

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