On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 06:43:47AM -0700, Vieri Di Paola wrote: > > --- On Thu, 9/25/08, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [ First, please fix your mail client to properly wrap lines. ] > > I'm using Yahoo's webmail. > Will have to subscribe from another account. > If you use "plain text" instead of "rich text" it should work properly.
> > Your best bet is to use squid. Squid has a nice acl feature that allows > > you do block based on domain name and/or url key words. > > Thanks but what if I don't know beforehand the domain names and/or url > keywords? > I'm not sure. > I already setup once a custom http tunnel with a ssh server to take > control of a remote host via vnc, bypassing its firewall (however, the > remote host did not have a proxy). I suppose that by forcing the use > of Squid the HTTP requests/replies will be done by the proxy itself so > they will be "truely http". > > What about HTTPS? > > According to > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/AboutSquid#head-593dae4b6b740816917a6cc2ce5854d3d43624ee > it seems that HTTPS connections are just passed through. So I guess > that if port 443 is allowed then applications "such as" LogMeIn could > go through that port. > Think about it for a minute. If you could intercept the https packets and look inside of them, then so could anybody. What would be the point SSL then? It would be worthless. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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