Re: [squid-users] Yahoo doesn't load properly through squid

Avinash Rao wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> Avinash Rao wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> you had asked for blocks.files.acl
>>>
>>> \.[Aa][Vv][Ii]$
>>> \.[Mm][Pp]3$
>>> \.[Mm][Pp][Ee][Gg]$
>>> \.[Mm][Pp][Gg]$
>>> \.[Ss][Cc][Rr]$
>>> \.[Oo][Rr][Kk][Uu][Tt]$
>>> \.[Ee][Xx][Ee]$
>> You can simplify the above by setting squid.conf:
>> acl blah urlpath_regex -i "blocks.file.acl"
>>
>> which makes it ignore upper/lower case when matching.
>>
>> and simply listing:
>> .avi$
>> .mp3$
>> etc...
>>
>>
>> Also, the above is _almost_ identical you your squid.conf defined ACL "abc".
>> But the above will fail to catch any even slightly obfuscated file
>> extensions.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> more squid-noblock.acl
>>>
>>> ^http\:\/\/(.+@)?www\.gmail\.com\/
>>> ^http\:\/\/(.+@)?www\.rediff\.com\/
>>> ^http\:\/\/(.+@)?www\.yahoo\.com\/
>>> ^http\:\/\/(.+@)?www\.sscms\.org\/
>> The above are all MUCH better matched with dstdomain type:
>> acl blah dstdomain "squid-noblock.acl"
>>
>> listing:
>> www.gmail.com
>> www.rediff.com
>> etc...
>>
>>
>> Your problem was that it would not allow yahoo stuff right? well
>> www.yahoo.com is not the only domain name they own and use. Most of the
>> content is not in the www.* domain.
>>
>> Others have pointed out that the yahoo media content (including front page
>> images!) are hosted at *.yimg.com, and large portions of the readable
>> content is at *.yahoo.*.* with the final stars being some country codes.
>>
>> Same goes for all of those domains I reckon. For example groups.gmail.com
>> and images.gmail.com, *.google.com and mailbox.gmail.com are all used at
>> various points by gmail. Various companies using gmail for internal mail
>> also have their own sub-domain.gmail.com used for staff access.
>>
>> Amos
>> --
>> Please be using
>> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE19
>> Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.14
>>
>
>
> Thank you for the detailed explanation. You are right yahoo uses
> .yimg.com a lot as i noticed that URL in the browsers status bar when
> i accessed yahoo sites.
>
> I removed the .yimg.com from the dstdomain entry and yahoo.com worked.
> But, the animated images are not loading, its just blank.

Look at the page code. see where its loading the images from.
Might be another yahoo site or might be third-party advertising.

Amos

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Please be using
   Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE19
   Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.14