Re: [squid-users] Restricting Downloads for certain file types

Jan Rasmussen wrote:
>
> Hi!
> > acl denymp3 url_regex mp3
> > http_access deny denymp3
>
> Won't that block any url with the string mp3? If it is only mp3 *files* I
> would make it :
>
> acl denymp3 url_regex .mp3$

I think you actually want

acl denymp3 -i urlpath_regex \.mp3$ \.mp3? \.mp3$

note: can alternatively be written as \.mp3($|?|;) or \.mp3$ \.mp3[?;]
or a number of other alternative ways..

  urlpath_regex to match the URL path (and query string) only, not the
full URL

  -i for case insensitivity

  \. to match '.', not 'any character'

  $ to match URL's ending in .mp3

  ? to match query URL's like
http://www.exampel.com/download/song.mp3?anything

 ; to match URL's with protocol parameters, like
ftp://ftp.example.com/download/song.mp3;type=i

Technical Note: "urlpath" in Squid is a little bit of a misnormer as it
matches more than only the URL path. It matches the URL Path plus any
trailing query or parameter strings.

Regards
Henrik Nordstr�m
Squid Developer
Received on Sat Jan 19 2002 - 04:03:47 MST