Filtering Proxy

[Tim Aslat]

In the immortal words of Matt Magin  on 08/28/07 11:43:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm looking for filtering proxy software for an expanding network that 
> currently has about 1000 users. Features we'd like to see are the 
> ability to authenticate users and groups with MS Active Directory, 
> complete logging of requests and the ability to easily report on them or 
> at least the ability to easily parse the log files, and blacklists and 
> whitelists that can be applied to specific groups and users. There would 
> preferably be caching in there as well, but from what I've seen from 
> looking around is that practically all of them do it anyway. After a bit 
> of Googling it seems that SafeSquid is the only thing that's coming up, 
> but I'm having issues with that because it seems like they've just been 
> spamming the entire Internet and clogging up Google. It makes me wary of 
> using their software. Does anybody have any experience with this, and 
> can offer some advice?

I'm sure there's plenty of others out there, I know I'm working on one 
(work in progress since about 2001) it's for a school and supports about 
1500 users and somewhere around 600 workstations.  It authenticates off 
AD, runs on a FreeBSD server, needs lots of RAM and reasonably fast 
processor.  The filtering is URL based only at this stage with a basic 
web interface to add/remove items from the blacklist.

It was never designed to be more than a once-off but I could be 
persuaded to customise it for another client if the price is right.

There's also a turnkey product kicking around but I can't for the life 
of me remember what it's called.  I'll post back if I remember.

Cheers

Tim

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