Re: HTTP Filter Proxy
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:32:27AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:15:07AM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On 2010-01-21, Glenn English <ghe@slsware.com> wrote:
> > > On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:13 PM, Kun Niu wrote:
> > >> Roman Gelfand wrote:
> > >>> Can somebody recommend HTTP filter proxy software or softwares?
> > >
> > > Filter what? Privoxy does a reasonable job on ads. Squid has acls and
> > > a bunch of other stuff that you config yourself. And they can run in
> > > serial...
> >
> > Seconded. Privoxy chained with squid make a good combination. There are
> > plenty of tutorials on the web to help you set it up.
>
> Another vote for privoxy. You can configure it to block whatever you like
> based on URL pattern or HTTP headers (e.g. Content-Type), not to mention
> blocking just cookies, rewriting content (e.g. adding or removing
> autocomplete="off" in form tags), etc. I think there is even a facility to
> block images based on dimensions, though I haven't played with it.
>
> Unless you need the caching, though, I don't see much value in adding squid
> to the mix. I've been using privoxy alone for years with great success.
> > Liam
> --Greg
>
>
How about adding Dansguardian to the mix...
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