<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Block download]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hi</p>
<p dir="auto">Can i know how to block user from downloading file from internet. can I use squidguard for this?</p>
<p dir="auto">Thank you.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/5307/block-download</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:22:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forum.netgate.com/topic/5307.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:32:53 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Fri, 02 May 2008 13:23:35 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Can i know how to block user from downloading file from internet. can I use squidguard for this?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Possible. Create Destination item with expression<br />
.*.(zip|rar|cab|mp3|avi|mpg|swf|exe|mpeg|mpv)</p>
<p dir="auto">ps not add to this .com - this blocked www.xxxx.com zone</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/172818</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/172818</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[dvserg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 13:23:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Fri, 02 May 2008 08:01:40 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/pogey">@<bdi>pogey</bdi></a>:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Hmm.. what I do is manually create a few ACL file in /var/squid/acl and edit the squid.inc in /usr/local/pkg. Right now all streaming, ads &amp; file download was succesfully block by squid. Tell me if you want to look at my squid.inc file.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Dear Pogey,</p>
<p dir="auto">Appreciate if you could send me the ACL file and squid.inc to me at kokwan.lee@newera.edu.my</p>
<p dir="auto">Thank you in advance.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/172801</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/172801</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[newera]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 08:01:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:43:41 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Blocking .flv files may block flash videos without blocking flash. Let me know if it works.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/161846</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/161846</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[EricTyrrell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:43:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:55:10 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/anthylon">@<bdi>anthylon</bdi></a>:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Hello pogey,</p>
<p dir="auto">If you could be so kind to get me some example or maybe your conf. file. It could be helpful to me. I'm really having huge problem with users watching video (and pornography). I'm living in Bosnia and I don't have good speed here so I must block things like ads, video streaming and simillar. Unfortunatelly (as I found out during my researching) there is no way to block flash streaming. &gt;:( It could be blocked but all flash content would be blocked too. :o But at least I wish to block what I could.</p>
<p dir="auto">Any help would be more than welcome. ;D If you can and want send your configuration to me my email is anthylon@gmail.com.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thank you :)</p>
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<p dir="auto">Dear anthylon,</p>
<p dir="auto">Yes if you block streaming it would block all flash content but you can create your exception list. Another thing is don't edit your squid.conf but edit your squid.inc in /usr/local/pkg. If you edit the squid.conf it will gone after you reboot your pfsense. I will send my squid.inc &amp; my ACL file to you later.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/161753</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/161753</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[pogey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:55:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:41:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Pogey, if you post your squid.inc here others may benefit as well. Now or in future.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/161739</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/161739</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jahonix]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:41:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:51:34 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hello pogey,</p>
<p dir="auto">If you could be so kind to get me some example or maybe your conf. file. It could be helpful to me. I'm really having huge problem with users watching video (and pornography). I'm living in Bosnia and I don't have good speed here so I must block things like ads, video streaming and simillar. Unfortunatelly (as I found out during my researching) there is no way to block flash streaming. &gt;:( It could be blocked but all flash content would be blocked too. :o But at least I wish to block what I could.</p>
<p dir="auto">Any help would be more than welcome. ;D If you can and want send your configuration to me my email is anthylon@gmail.com.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thank you :)</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/161715</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/161715</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[anthylon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:51:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:51:23 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hmm.. what I do is manually create a few ACL file in /var/squid/acl and edit the squid.inc in /usr/local/pkg. Right now all streaming, ads &amp; file download was succesfully block by squid. Tell me if you want to look at my squid.inc file.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/161714</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/161714</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[pogey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:51:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:51:26 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hello there,</p>
<p dir="auto">Are you still working on your rule? I wish to see it if you done with programming.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thank you in advance,</p>
<p dir="auto">Anthylon</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/160876</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/160876</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[anthylon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:51:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:04:18 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">you could experiment with snort and create a custom rule to check for the extention such as mp3 avi mpg….etc and also check for the contents of a file to defeat the song.txt bypass.. I have the same isse I need to prevent users from downloading files. I will be working on creating some rules this week. and will post my rulesets. :)</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/159439</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/159439</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[cdsu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:04:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:52:17 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Well, you could install Squid and then configure it to limit access (acl type urlpath_regex).  The problem is, it's pretty trivial to bypass by simply changing "song.mp3" to "song.txt".</p>
<p dir="auto">There's also the problem that if the URL doesn't match your pattern then the download will succeed (say your pattern is *.mp3, if the url is http://some.server/download?song.mp3&amp;id=12354, then your pattern won't match.  If you try to make the pattern more generic then you run risks of blocking other things).</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/158124</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/158124</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cry Havok]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:52:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:35:04 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I need to block user from downloading music file like .mp3, .wav, .avi and also block .exe</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/158115</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/158115</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[pogey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:35:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Block download on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:26:36 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">One particular file, any file of a particular type or any file at all…?</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/post/158104</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.netgate.com/post/158104</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cry Havok]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:26:36 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>