On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Avinash Rao wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> you had asked for blocks.files.acl >> >> \.[Aa][Vv][Ii]$ >> \.[Mm][Pp]3$ >> \.[Mm][Pp][Ee][Gg]$ >> \.[Mm][Pp][Gg]$ >> \.[Ss][Cc][Rr]$ >> \.[Oo][Rr][Kk][Uu][Tt]$ >> \.[Ee][Xx][Ee]$ > > You can simplify the above by setting squid.conf: > acl blah urlpath_regex -i "blocks.file.acl" > > which makes it ignore upper/lower case when matching. > > and simply listing: > .avi$ > .mp3$ > etc... > > > Also, the above is _almost_ identical you your squid.conf defined ACL "abc". > But the above will fail to catch any even slightly obfuscated file > extensions. > > >> >> >> more squid-noblock.acl >> >> ^http\:\/\/(.+@)?www\.gmail\.com\/ >> ^http\:\/\/(.+@)?www\.rediff\.com\/ >> ^http\:\/\/(.+@)?www\.yahoo\.com\/ >> ^http\:\/\/(.+@)?www\.sscms\.org\/ > > The above are all MUCH better matched with dstdomain type: > acl blah dstdomain "squid-noblock.acl" > > listing: > www.gmail.com > www.rediff.com > etc... > > > Your problem was that it would not allow yahoo stuff right? well > www.yahoo.com is not the only domain name they own and use. Most of the > content is not in the www.* domain. > > Others have pointed out that the yahoo media content (including front page > images!) are hosted at *.yimg.com, and large portions of the readable > content is at *.yahoo.*.* with the final stars being some country codes. > > Same goes for all of those domains I reckon. For example groups.gmail.com > and images.gmail.com, *.google.com and mailbox.gmail.com are all used at > various points by gmail. Various companies using gmail for internal mail > also have their own sub-domain.gmail.com used for staff access. > > Amos > -- > Please be using > Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE19 > Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.14 > Thank you for the detailed explanation. You are right yahoo uses .yimg.com a lot as i noticed that URL in the browsers status bar when i accessed yahoo sites. I removed the .yimg.com from the dstdomain entry and yahoo.com worked. But, the animated images are not loading, its just blank. Warm Regards, Avinash
