On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 18:45, Grant Parnell wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 02, 2004, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> > >   Instead of blocking port 80, you could also consider redirecting it
> > >   to the port used by squid.
> > 
> > Or possibly put up a minimal web-page using one of the minimalist
> > servers, that explains how to turn the proxy on. That's halfway between
> > transparent proxy and packet dropping in terms of use.
> 
> That's a cool idea... here's an extension of that. Basically if they 
> haven't got their proxy setup it flips them to a web page that tells them 
> how to do so. Also... it's scary but you might be able to automatically 
> setup Internet Explorer somehow <evil grin> .. javascript hack?

This is a bad idea.

apt-get install something
...
error - corrupt data.

Don't do. It's worse than hijacking the sessions into a proxy in the
first place.

Rob
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