RE: [squid-users] Bloacking Kazza seems to be impossible.

> Is their any way squid can find out type of file and
> block downloading (not by url-_regex)

You can use the rep_mime_type acl - just remember that
you will have to block it in http_reply_access and not
http_access.

One other thing you can try - turn on logging of MIME
headers to see if Kazaa uses a special MIME type, or
maybe something in the UA string. Then block based on
that.

You might also want to consider putting Kazaa into a
very slow delay pool instead of blocking it. If you block
it users might try to work around it, but if you just slow
it down then they might assume a network problem and give up.

> By all above restrictions older versions of kazza
> download has stopped but new version are not blocked.

Kazaa does put a lot of effort into making the software
hard to block. You're starting from scratch, fighting an
uphill battle against a moving target. Good luck.

Adam
Received on Thu Aug 21 2003 - 08:06:09 MDT