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Obsolete Releases => SME 9.x Contribs => Topic started by: jameswilson on June 25, 2018, 12:56:18 PM

Title: Webfilter contrib
Post by: jameswilson on June 25, 2018, 12:56:18 PM
Following on from a post about this contrib i installed it. However it isnt blocking anything. I have checked it is installed and even done a full reconfigure etc.
I did previously run dansguardian on this server and wonder if there is a config file somewhere, but i have no idea where to look?

James
Title: Re: Webfilter contrib
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on June 29, 2018, 09:37:22 PM
usually both for webfilter (based on squidguard) and dansguardian, the issue reside in using the transparent proxy and being able to force it on client.

Dansguardian could add one level of difficulty with handling the group configurations

Title: Re: Webfilter contrib
Post by: jameswilson on July 02, 2018, 11:34:58 AM
Thanks
I have checked and the http proxy is showing as enabled?

James
Title: Re: Webfilter contrib
Post by: Daniel B. on July 02, 2018, 06:17:54 PM
You need to have your web trafic handled by SME Server's proxy (squid) for the filtering to take effect. When SME is running in server&gateway mode, this can be done automatically for clear text (http) using transparent proxying. No settings needed on the clients. But, if SME is running in serveronly mode, and more generally, for https filtering, this can't be done automatically. You need to configure your clients to explicitely use SME as an http proxy (http://<local sme ip>:3128)

Note that in any case, https is much more limited: