[TriLUG] I want to build an HTTP Proxy for Home

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Bob Shepherd wrote:

>I've considered using a proxy to help make the web "kid-safe" for all PCs in 
>the household, without having to install host-PC applications like 
>"Net-Nanny" and the like.  However, a friend has tried this using a whitelist 
>approach, to disastrous results.  It turns out almost all the sites have so 
>much included content from other foreign URLs that it made the whitelist 
>approach generally unmanageable.  I'm wondering if anyone has had success 
>with a proxy used for kid-safe content filtering?
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You should have a look at SquidGuard or DansGuardian.  Intrex uses a 
filter based on SquidGuard (a plugin for Squid) which has freely a 
available database you can use for blocking that is updated on a 
tri-weekly basis.  The setup is pretty straight forward, and well 
documented.  And if you decide it's more hassle than you'd like, you 
could always subscribe to Intrex's filtering service.  :)

Aaron S. Joyner