On Thursday 12 October 2006 11:24, B K wrote: > I have a general question about mime. > > Can this be used as a application layer firewall. For example to block > traffic based on layer 4 information. For example Peer to Peer file > sharing programs or live streaming. If not what are my options, can I > get add in programs. The usual answer: Squid is a HTTP proxy. Not a layer-4-firewall. The "classical" approach is to use a firewall to block all outgoing traffic and only allow connections to the internet that go through a proxy. That's what some "application layer firewalls" do, too. Every protocol needs a certain proxy to work. Since Squid is not a peer2peer proxy that protocol won't work unless it speaks HTTP. Squid is not extensible to do anything else but HTTP proxying. Christoph
