Re: blocking based on meta keyword tags?

Hi -

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:20:44 -0800, Frustrated Firewaller
<frustratedfirewaller@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Does anybody know of such a thing? Many router/firewalls claim to
>block based on "keywords", but the keywords they refer to are embedded
>in an URL. That's not what I want at all.

The entire page needs to be retrieved and scanned before any of it is
returned to the client. That is beyond router/firewall capabilities.
What you need is an HTTP/HTTPS proxy server.

(Someone could conceivably add that to a router/firewall, but that
wouldn't make it a firewall/router function, it would make the device
a firewall/router/proxy. IMO it's best to keep separate functions
separate.)

The one which is probably the best known is Squid:
http://www.squid-cache.org/

I've never used it so I can't express an opinion of its capabilities
nor answer any specific questions about it.

-- 
Ken
http://www.ke9nr.net/