Re: [squid-users] Prevent downloading of special types of applications

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 03:36, reymc@eurecom.fr wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your answer Robert. I now manage to apply filtering based on
> the MIME type.
>
> However, since all embedded scripts do not have the MIME type application/x -
> oleobject (which is the MIME type they should have), I do not manage to avoid
> downloading of activeX objects.
>
> Does anyone has any idea on how to prevent downloading of ActiveX objects ?

Well, in general this is a hard problem.
You might consider blocking urls ending in .cab. Otherwise, see Henrik's
answer :].

Rob

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