Setup ipfire as above. Then went to windows settings “network and internet proxy” and turned manual proxy on and entered my ipfire address. It is not stopping kroger.com and pringles.com in the url filter. Turning on the proxy in windows stops speedtest.net with a server error. The cache is not enabled. I haven’t reset ipfire yet. Default firewall behavior /forward is to “allowed” At www.ipfire.org - Web Proxy , there isn’t much to go on about how to set this up. I also tried this with firefox proxy with default firewall behavior /forward is to “blocked” and that was a disaster after a ipfire reset. thanks
Have you tried blocking port 443 and port 80.?
This is the path of least resistance to bypass proxy.
Out of interest, if it is using regex matching, are leading trailing .* even needed?
If you want to block
Everything that contains ocalesit
Yes
I took my CU201 system and enabled the URL Filter and added the two sites you mentioned to the blacklist section.
Then pressed the Save and restart button.
Then I pressed the Clear Cache button on the Web Proxy page to ensure that any previous entry was removed and also cleared the cache in the Browser to be sure that all caches were cleared.
Set the browser to use the web proxy by manually specifying the IPFire IP and then tried to access the two sites.
entering pringles.com gave the following response
The same result occurred with kroger.com
So the url filter blacklist entries are working in my test.
Maybe first ensure that all caches are actually cleared. Caches in browsers and the web proxy can store stuff without you being aware of it.
You were right, clearing out the Custom expression list let it work. Thanks