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

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:52, 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?
> 
I use squidguard and the public school lists.  Works great for filtering
out the extreme parts of the web where you don't want your kids
wandering.

http://www.squidguard.org/

Public School blacklist:
  http://squidguard.mesd.k12.or.us/blacklists.tgz 

Contributed Blacklists:
  http://www.squidguard.org/blacklist/

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Jon Carnes