Hi, Finally got that working!!! The following configuration worked for me: acl download_sites dstdomain .microsoft.com .apache.org http_reply_access allow download_sites Thanks Amos and Edmonds. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 30/06/2012 1:00 a.m., Edmonds Namasenda wrote: >> >> Shastri, >> That is what we are trying to help you solve. Are we writing gibberish?! >> >> At the http_access restricting downloads, add something like >> "!\.example\.com" (without the quotation marks) > > > Ah, sorry. You were right I overlooked that goodsites was a dstdomain type. > the content passed to it was almost but not a regex pattern, which fooled me > badly. However, being dstdomain just makes the domains with "*" characters > in them even more wrong. > > dstdomain is a plain-text comparison, not a pattern or anything like regex. > > The format of this should work: > > .microsoft.com > .windows.com > .etc.com.com > > > NP: the '.' at the start of each domain name means ignore any extra > left-hand text on the clients requested domain. So it is as close to > wildcard as dstdomain gets. Without the dot the two domains must be fully > the same (upper/lower case not counting). > > >> >> Else, provide more accurate information for faster troubleshooting if >> that fails. Many people dump their whole configuration files for >> analysis! > > > Yes please. > > > Amos >
