[lug] Filtering Proxies

[Michael J. Pedersen]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:52:43PM -0700, John Hernandez wrote:
> What, like an http proxy?  Squid?  For filters, there's a
> redirector API.  One filtering redirector example is Ad
> Zapper.  The author updates a zap list, and makes it
> freely available.  Squid has even attempted an
> internet-wide caching hierarchy, which I know very little
> about.
> 
> http://www.squid-proxy.org
> 
> The challenge, as you point out, would be design an public
> update method, probably by user moderation (like /.) and
> deploy it on a nice fat pipe, but the congestion could get
> ugly real fast.

Yes, an http proxy, but not quite like squid, nor even like junkbuster. More
like Bess, CyberPatrol, etc. The difference being that anybody can monitor
what's being blocked and what's not.

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