SquidGuard block partial URL String?
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PFSense 1.23 trying to use SquidGuard to block www.facebook.com/login.php I can't seem to get regex to work, always says "DEST {blocksite} is not a valid URL". The regex that should work is 'www.facebook.com/login'
I have also tried: www.facebook.com/login* www.facebook.com/login.*
Just to be sure I've also tried other sites and I can't get a string to block unless it is exact.
Any ideas? Is there a place where I can manually add the above block?
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Did you try with
.*facebook\.com/.* -
If I use any regex operators it comes up with invalid URL.
So… I was overthinking it. Turns out anything I put in there gets blocked. To check this i added {mysite.com}/c and it blocked all of the subfolders for my site that started with c. So it seems I do not need to have any regex characters.
Unfortunately this doesn't solve my facebook issue. I added www.facebook.com/log and that blocked the LOGOUT page but not the login page. Facebook is so entrenched in everything that I want the site to be available (links from various sources, etc...) but I don't want my users to be able to login. Sigh... Maybe it is impossible.
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Didn't realize the facebook login page is HTTPS…. That's why I can't block it. :( Ohh well. Out goes the whole site.
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But I think only the login page is httpS and the other sites are normal http.
If you block all http traffic for facebook it would make sense for the clients to login if they cann't browse the site ?!Or you have to disable the transparent mode in squid and hardcode the proxy in the browser or you use WPAD to autoconfigure the browser.
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I guess I could block the home.php landing page, but I think I tried that and it also didn't work.