Re: [squid-users] Allowing downloads from certain sites

Hi,

   Finally got that working!!!
   The following configuration worked for me:

   acl download_sites dstdomain .microsoft.com .apache.org
   http_reply_access allow download_sites

Thanks Amos and Edmonds.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 30/06/2012 1:00 a.m., Edmonds Namasenda wrote:
>>
>> Shastri,
>> That is what we are trying to help you solve. Are we writing gibberish?!
>>
>> At the http_access restricting downloads, add something like
>> "!\.example\.com" (without the quotation marks)
>
>
> Ah, sorry. You were right I overlooked that goodsites was a dstdomain type.
> the content passed to it was almost but not a regex pattern, which fooled me
> badly. However, being dstdomain just makes the domains with "*" characters
> in them even more wrong.
>
> dstdomain is a plain-text comparison, not a pattern or anything like regex.
>
> The format of this should work:
>
> .microsoft.com
> .windows.com
> .etc.com.com
>
>
> NP: the '.' at the start of each domain name means ignore any extra
> left-hand text on the clients requested domain. So it is as close to
> wildcard as dstdomain gets. Without the dot the two domains must be fully
> the same (upper/lower case not counting).
>
>
>>
>> Else, provide more accurate information for faster troubleshooting if
>> that fails. Many people dump their whole configuration files for
>> analysis!
>
>
> Yes please.
>
>
> Amos
>
Received on Mon Jul 02 2012 - 05:58:10 MDT