Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:40:57PM +0200, Manuel Schroeder wrote:
>
>>
>>How can I make squid to block browsers coming on port 80 in "no proxy
>>mode"?! :)
>>
>
>
> Quite simply, you cannot. What you need is a firewall that prevents
> your users from directly accessing the internet, only allowing WWW
> access via your proxy. This way your users are forced to use the
> proxy and hence are forced to comply with the mandated policies (much
> as that may sound authoritarian).
Indeed. That's what we do here. The firewall only allows outgoing WWW
connections from our WWW proxies. Users are free to configure their
WWW browsers to not use the WWW proxy. This simply results in them being
stopped by the firewall...
Guy
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