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

[Roy Vestal]

This is exactly what I want to do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Shepherd" <rwshep2000 at yahoo.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] I want to build an HTTP Proxy for Home


> 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?
>
> On Monday 02 August 2004 10:42 am, Dan Monjar wrote:
> > --On Sunday, August 01, 2004 01:56:15 PM -0400 Roy Vestal
> >
> > <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> > > I want to build an HTTP Proxy for my home network. I'd like to use an
> > > old notebook I have lying around. It's a P-90, 40MB RAM, 2GB HDD. Not
> > > much of a machine, but for my use it should be plenty. I'm planning on
> > > using Debian stable on it simply because FC1/2 and WBEL are just too
> > > dang big and the notebook doesn't meet the requirements.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I was thinking of using Squid. Didn't know if anyone else had
> > > suggestions or experience that they'd like to share. Anyone know of
> > > howto's? I haven't check TLDP yet.
> >
> > Educate me please, how would having a proxy on that size machine for
just a
> > few users help you?  I've always viewed proxies as helping when you have
> > lots of memory for the cache and lots of users to take advantage of it.
> > Not flammage, just an honest question.
> >
> > That said, I, too, have used Squid for quite a few years, inside the
> > business, with great success.
> >
> > --
> > Dan Monjar
>
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