On Thursday 21 August 2003 15.32, ads squid wrote:

> This restricts downloading of file extensions in URl
> but is URL is like this
> "www.xyz.com/display_movie?id=8"
> when this URl is clicked .mpeg, .avi file from Mysql
> database starts downloading. That means restricting
> file downloading by url_regex does not work even if
> blocked.

url_regex can only look into the url.. this is why the acl is named 
url_regex. If what you want to block is not part of the URL then 
other means is required.

Recently discussed on squid-users there is many means of blocking 
downloads. See the archives for the last hours.

Regards
Henrik

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