Hi,
Wondering if I can get some help with the Squid Proxy plugin.
I'm setting up a web filter using Squid in transparent mode, doing both HTTP and HTTPS filtering, (certificate for any SSL related proxy filtering is set and installed and works).
So far it is working...kind of.
The problem I'm having is as below:
So for example, if I tried to go say www.porn.whatever either via HTTP or HTTPS website directly, it is blocked and displays the block page as it should.
However, if I search for porn.whatever in google or another search engine, the search isn't blocked, and while the website links won't work and will be blocked, they will still show in the list of results, and if you go to the search engine images tab, the various images will still show up if you click on them to show the preview. Again if you double click to open the image itself its blocked, but the preview pane is bad enough.
Ideally, I would like if you even search for porn.whatever in google, or any other search engine for that matter and hit search, for it to be blocked.
Is this something squid can do with extra plugins or settings, or is this not really suitable for this sort of filtering?
Appreciate any help.
(Using Opnsense 25.1.4 Community)
It's not possible, as is, because it's URLs that are checked.
When searching for a bad website, the URL is the search engine's URL...