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by mtx Jun 16, 2003 last reply Jul 24, 2003

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I have installed Squid in an internet cafe proxy server and applied necessary restrictions, one of them being restricting download size for a file (HTTP download). When client use a 3rd party download accelerator it can still download big files? is there any restriction to this? workstation is using win98 and proxy server is red hat v7.3. Thanks

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by sbkwi Jun 24, 2003

You could disable packet forwarding on the proxy server. If you do this, NOTHING will pass except when accessed via squid. If this isn't acceptable, set up a transparent proxy server to force any http request to go through squid (see http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/FAQ/netfilter-faq-3.html#ss3.12).

by mtx Jul 24, 2003

tried to setup transparent proxy server and it did block the 3rd party download accelerator from downloading bigger files. thank you...

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