Re: Force using Squid

At 06:09 PM 4/2/98 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>Panjai Tantatsanawong wrote:
>> Dear Squid user
>> I would like to ask that is it possible to force
>> all users to use WWW via Squid proxy by block TCP port 80
>> of all clients in router and allow only proxy machine
>> to access outside?
>
>Yes, of course. The only negative side is that you will be likely to get
>washed out by the stream of users' calls and e-mails :-)
>However, you will be much more likely to be washed out by the calls and
>e-mails if you set up a 'transparent' proxy ;-)

It depends on who you are. An internet provider can't but a business or
government agency can enforce this very simply (the boss pays for your
browsing).
We also did this a year ago. Although we had been advertizing the proxy for
half a year (a monthly request) about 60% didn't care. So we announced that
it was mandatory to use proxy, explained how to use it in a help file and a
week later just blocked. It took about 3 days and 99.9% of the users
understood there was no way out (nice to see on an analyser people just
trying for a while although they couldn't have missed the announcements). We
got about 2 help-requests (on about 300 users) and that was it. Now people
don't know any better.

Transparent proxy is nicer but took more effort for us so we decided that
the user should spend 30 seconds to configure their browser instead.

:-)

Marc

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Received on Thu Apr 02 1998 - 06:37:28 MST