[Gllug] Videos in web pages

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Tue, June 14, 2011 11:53, t.clarke wrote:
> Apologies in advance - this is not really a linux topic:
>
> I discovered the other day that someone in the office was watching Tennis
> on the BBC web site on their PC - I presume this is a flash plugin or
> something?
>
> The problem is that we have a fairly crummy internet connection, due to
> distance
> from the Exchange and these sort of downloads soak up too much of our
> limited
> bandwidth.
>
> Connections are done through a Squid proxy on a Linux box.
>
> Is there any way of preventing these types of connections through Squid,
> or
> do I have to look for means of removing the flash player/whatever
> capabilities
> from the web browsers?
>
> thanks
> Tim
>
>

At a guess I would say configure squid to block anything with a mime type
video/* or application/x-shockwave-flash.

Failing that, blocking anything with a file extension of .flv, .swf. (+
.mpg, .avi, .wmv, .ogv....etc)


Salsaman.







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