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url blocker

thorsten greiner

url blocker
« on: September 01, 2003, 03:44:52 AM »
hi...

anyone knows a way to establish a list of unwanted url's?! like blocking popup-urls and stuff...

any help appreciated...

cheers, thorsten

Klaus Eckert

Re: url blocker
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2003, 03:57:40 AM »
a good tool for that is squid-guard.
there you have a "blacklist" of unwanted url's.
and you can specify url's or hosts that have full permissions.

in my opinion it is included in SME 5.6 or available as a contrib.

cheers klaus

thorsten greiner

Re: url blocker
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2003, 04:13:44 AM »
thanx for that... danke ;)

cheers, thorsten

thorsten greiner

Re: url blocker
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2003, 05:45:41 AM »
well... tried squidquard with v6.0 beta 3 and my system got stuck. is wasn't even able to login to admin via console. when i did a 'top' there was very much systemressources used by squidguard. and finally i unistalled it again...

any more idea on this issue?!

cheers, thorsten

Klaus Eckert

Re: url blocker
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2003, 06:28:51 AM »
maybe it's an issue on version 6beta3??

in version 5.6 it works fine for me...

cheers klaus