Squid will block all the traffic which passes through it, and is directed to facebook.com. But, if the request for the web page does not go through squid, it won't get blocked.
Firefox didn't open www.facebook.com, because you might have setup the proxy server to be the squid machine (which, in this case, is your own machine). If you specify the same proxy settings in elinks, then facebook will be blocked in elinks as well. But, if there is no proxy setting for elinks, and it has direct internet access, then it won't get blocked. For how to setup the proxy settings in elinks, you can find it out in detail from elsewhere. (Hint: Hit 'O'). Also, note that elinks is affected by your environment variables as well (HTTP_PROXY and others ...). See `man elinks`. Cheers nitesh mor On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:45 PM, viki <[email protected]> wrote: > > > if i am running squid proxy in my red hat linux machine and i run > #elinks www.facebook.com > > Will it open facebook if blocked by squid through elinks command .. If > yes then why ? > Firefox didnt open as it is blocked in squid.conf!!!!!! > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
