Apache-Proxyblock.conf -Need to block iGoogle without blocking Google

Hi,
Hi,

I want to prevent the users in my company who use Apache proxy from
loading the site IGoogle . in the proxyblock.conf directive I added
igoogle and google.com/ig and google.co.in/ig .

The proxy blocks users when they type in www.igoogle,com but when they
type www.google.com/ig or www.google.co.in/ig or when they just go to
the Google page and click on the iGoogle link it loads for them.

The users who have Gmail,Youtube etc blocked already have now found
out that they can access the same using iGoogle . This is frustrating
for us system admins who dont want to block google.com but only
iGoogle .

Is there any way this is possible. Can i give the whole link i.e
http://www.google.co.in/ig?hl=en without the Apache server blocking
anything that starts with http/www ???


Also is Squid better than Apache??? I guess the same can be done with
Squid ???

Am not a Linux guy,jus learning the ropes..into Cisco and Microsoft
mainly...so please tone your answers for a Non-Linux guy...thanks


Regards,
Nandagopal

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> Hi,
> Hi,
>
> I want to prevent the users in my company who use Apache proxy from
> loading the site IGoogle . in the proxyblock.conf directive I added
> igoogle and google.com/ig and google.co.in/ig .
>
> The proxy blocks users when they type in www.igoogle,com but when they
> type www.google.com/ig or www.google.co.in/ig or when they just go to
> the Google page and click on the iGoogle link it loads for them.
>
> The users who have Gmail,Youtube etc blocked already have now found
> out that they can access the same using iGoogle . This is frustrating
> for us system admins who dont want to block google.com but only
> iGoogle .
>
> Is there any way this is possible. Can i give the whole link i.e
> http://www.google.co.in/ig?hl=en without the Apache server blocking
> anything that starts with http/www ???
>
>
> Also is Squid better than Apache??? I guess the same can be done with
> Squid ???
>
> Am not a Linux guy,jus learning the ropes..into Cisco and Microsoft
> mainly...so please tone your answers for a Non-Linux guy...thanks
>
>
> Regards,
> Nandagopal
>
Apache can do Proxy, but, it's not it first goal.
For having a real proxy, use squid (+ SquidGuard if you want filtering).
It can use regex also.
For your case : ^http://.*\.igoogle\..* would match

OK... I havent used squid till now. We use IPTables + ISA server 2006
+ Apache Proxy in our network. ISA 2006 does the task ...By the way
wat is regex???

and are u telling me ^http://.*\.igoogle\..* is wat i need to give in
the proxyblock.conf directive?? dat's it??? will it block iGoogle
without blocking google.com??? but I need to block www.google.co.in/ig
and any other www.google.co.nz/ig ,www.google.co.uk/ig etc

Thanks for your replies..

Rgds,
Nandagopal