Re: [squid-users] Denying specific browser clients from using Squid

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Muthukumar wrote:
|>What I would like to do is ban certain browser clients (specifically
|>Internet Explorer) from using the squid proxy,
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| We can do it by using the browser acl's type. They are using
user-agent header to retrieve the browser types.
| For mozila client it is,MOZILA . I am not known the keyword for I.
explorer. May be IE?!
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| ---- squid.conf setting ----
| acl client_type browse ...
| http_access deny client_type
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|>a secondary aim would be
|>to redirect them to a page telling them to use a different client.
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| There is a directory as "errors". It will contain some example error
messages. You can write your own message.
| To give the error message to specify as "Use a different client as
like ...", use the deny_info TAG.
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| ---- squid.conf setting ----
| deny_info <ERROR_MESSAGE> client_type
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|>Can someone direct me to some good documentation on how to do this?
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| I hope http://www.clavister.com/support/kb/10026/ is good for this
requirement.

Looks like this is exactly what I need, thanks for the reply!

Chris

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Received on Wed Jun 09 2004 - 07:37:05 MDT