How to block HTTPS website?

mdima

Quite easy… even if it needs some maintenance sometimes.

Get the info about the Facebook public IPs
Create an alias that contains all the Facebook networks
Create a firewall rule that block that traffic

For the details:
Facebook IPs
I got them from ARIN (http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/THEFA-3.html, click on related networks). They are:
69.171.224.0/19
74.119.76.0/22
204.15.20.0/22
66.220.144.0/20
69.63.176.0/20
173.252.64.0/18

Alias
Just create an Alias:
Name: Facebook_Network (for example)
Type: Network(s)
Networks: All the above networks. Pay attention to the CIDR (/XX in the above entries) that must be specified with the dropdown-list

Firewall rule
Once you save and apply the alias, go on firewall, rules, LAN, add new rule. Just specify:
Action: Block
Interface: LAN
Protocol: Any
Source: Any
Destination: Singole host or alias, then type Facebook_Network (or the name of the alias you typed before)
Description: Blocks Facebook Networks (or whatever you want to type here)

Save the rule.
After that you should put that rule in the FIRST row of the table in order to avoid that before this rule other "pass" rules are applied. For this, just select the rule you just created (checkbox), then click the "<" arrow of the first rule in the table, this will put your "Blocks Facebook Networks" on top of the list.

That's it.

If you close and reopen all your browsers you should not be able to open facebook. If you are bored about the "keep alive" connections, just:

Force a "reload filter" from the "Status=>Filter reload" menu;
If it still persists (keep alive connections), reset the states (Diagnostic=>States=>Reset states)

I hope everything is clear and easy…

Michele

stephenw10

Yes, your list of IPs looks much better! ;)
Also happy to see our instructions seem to match up.

Steve

mdima

but your answer is better, I don't have any screenshot… :D
we were answering in the same time...

Metu69salemi

Glad if any of three same kind suggestions may help

marcelloc

an alias to apps.facebook.com can do the job also.

joako

@stephenw10:

Squid can't proxy https traffic. You have to block all https to force people to use the proxy.

You could block all https and then allow it only to sites you need.

As Metu69salemi suggested, create an alias containing all of facebook's IPs and block that.

Steve

Squid can indeed proxy HTTPS traffic. I think what you refer to is due to the design of the HTTPS protocol it is not possible (with any software) to setup a transparent HTTPS proxy.

stephenw10

Hmm, I stand corrected.
I would think, though, that in this case it wouldn't be useful since as you say it can't be transparent.
This raises some interesting questions about the end-to-end encryption of https. :-
More reading required….

Steve

marcelloc

Squid can indeed proxy HTTPS traffic. I think what you refer to is due to the design of the HTTPS protocol it is not possible (with any software) to setup a transparent HTTPS proxy.

It could be done, but requires some 'nasty' configuration.

You have to create a local CA, install CA certificate on users machines and forward all https to your local web server with proxy mode, just like man-in-the-middle attack.

Imspector has this options to proxy msn_https communication and create self-signed certificates to match common-name client check.

sudo

Hi All,

Thank you so much for suggestions.

thx.

emel_punk

Well….

i have recently discover on linux how to block sites per contain so any string that contains facebook, will be block

iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m string --string "facebook" --algo kmp -j DROP

i works for me... i do not know if with ipfw will have some simillar parameter ... i hope seo because im about to migrate to pfsense

@sudo:

Hi All,

Anybody know how to block HTTPS base sites. (ex. https://facebook.com) without blocking only 443 port. because It block all the https base site. I want to block only mail sites.

Thanks in Advance

stephenw10

pfSense uses pf(4) not ipfw. Though it does use ipfw for the captive portal function.
I think you may out of luck translating that from iptables. :-\

Steve

johnpoz

"This raises some interesting questions about the end-to-end encryption of https."

Depends on how your doing it – by default its just a Tunnel that squid passes the packets through - it has no understanding of what is inside the tunnel. Which is why it can be difficult to filter on https urls, etc.

here is a good read on how squid can handle https and or any other protocol you want to allow through the proxy
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/HTTPS

rjcrowder

@stephenw10:

pfSense uses pf(4) not ipfw. Though it does use ipfw for the captive portal function.
I think you may out of luck translating that from iptables. :-\

Steve

If you don't mind setting up the rules manually, you can activate the portal and then create your own ipfw rules. The only trick is to make the last step in your rules skip over the portal rules (assuming you don't want captive portal functionality).