Squidguard url-rewrite for Google safe search?
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I was helping someone just the other day with this very issue. SafeSearch via SquidGuard works fine. With it enabled, I couldn't get to any spicy Google images, and any attempts to turn off the filter just dropped you on the Google main page.
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@KOM:
I was helping someone just the other day with this very issue. SafeSearch via SquidGuard works fine. With it enabled, I couldn't get to any spicy Google images, and any attempts to turn off the filter just dropped you on the Google main page.
Did you do anything beyond clicking the checkbox? In addition, what version of squid/squidGuard were you running?
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Did you do anything beyond clicking the checkbox? In addition, what version of squid/squidGuard were you running?
Did you check both the "Enable Safe Search" option and also the "safesearch" option in rewrite dropdown in the common acl as well?
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Did you do anything beyond clicking the checkbox? In addition, what version of squid/squidGuard were you running?
Did you check both the "Enable Safe Search" option and also the "safesearch" option in rewrite dropdown in the common acl as well?
I have both the enable safe search option and the rewrite dropdown selected, I saved the changes and I already restarted squid. SquidGuard shows as running as well. Still no dice.
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I have both the enable safe search option and the rewrite dropdown selected, I saved the changes and I already restarted squid. SquidGuard shows as running as well. Still no dice.
I just tried it with squid3 and squidguard-squid3 package. Safesearch is working fine with bing and yahoo. Google is showing that safesearch is enabled but it pops up the results even for the loaded terms. May be it is looks for certain patterns and filters the results depending on the regional domains (Well this I what i think and I may be wrong).
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In addition, what version of squid/squidGuard were you running?
I don't remember if it was 2 or 3, but it was NOT Squid3-dev.
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I have both the enable safe search option and the rewrite dropdown selected, I saved the changes and I already restarted squid. SquidGuard shows as running as well. Still no dice.
I just tried it with squid3 and squidguard-squid3 package. Safesearch is working fine with bing and yahoo. Google is showing that safesearch is enabled but it pops up the results even for the loaded terms. May be it is looks for certain patterns and filters the results depending on the regional domains (Well this I what i think and I may be wrong).
Depending upon how the regular expression is written it may not apply to all versions of Google and Google may use slightly different syntax in different international versions. I recognize that, but I can't get it to work with any version afaik. I recognize one can't be perfect, but even basic functionality doesn't appear to be working here at least for me anyways.
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Anybody have any ideas?
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I can't get it to work either
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Possibly the rewrite works as expected but then Google redirects the request to SSL, whereupon (without further tech) the rewrite isn't possible. You can workaround the SSL redirect by creating CNAME records for all Google domains you allow, pointing at nosslsearch.google.com.
Rumours are that there is known way to circumvent that method, so can also try accepting the SSL but using the CNAME record method to force safe search forcesafesearch.google.com.
Or just ban Google for being idiots and forcing SSL and use Bing instead.