[squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

[Benjamin E. Nichols]

This sounds great, and would you mind specifying the source of the 
blacklist data at the core of your services?

In other words, what I dare ask you is this, and im sure others might 
want to know, are you using the blacklists from shalla, UT1, or 
urlblacklist? Or have you developed your own domain management technology?


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Benjamin E. Nichols

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On 6/14/2017 5:36 AM, Nishant Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are excited to invite early users to test drive Charcoal 
> (http://charcoal.io) - a Squid URL Rewriter for distributed proxies.
>
> Charcoal is designed to help administrators manage access rules for 
> the proxies at just one place with a GUI, instead of editing 
> configuration of individual proxy servers.
>
> It has come out of our need of managing ACLs for 100+ proxy servers on 
> embedded devices (OpenWRT/LEDE) running at our customer offices across 
> the geography of India. We are releasing it in the hope that it will 
> be useful for Squid users who have to manage multiple proxy servers 
> everyday.
>
> The architecture is API key driven client-server, where a squid 
> url-rewrite helper contacts server to query access controls for the 
> incoming requests.
>
> Current features:
> -----------------
> - Supports Squid 2.x and 3.x
> - 70+ pre-existing domains blacklist
> - Custom destination groups/categories
> - Custom source groups for IPs and Networks (usernames in the pipeline)
> - As of now only domain filter support (no full url filtering)
> - API key driven
>
> Configuration:
> --------------
> - Download the helper from 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hopbox/charcoal-helper/master/squid/charcoal-helper.pl.
> - Make sure IO::Socket module for Perl is installed.
> - Add following lines to squid.conf after downloading the helper:
>
> url_rewrite_program /path/to/charcoal-helper.pl YOUR_API_KEY
> url_rewrite_children X startup=Y idle=Z concurrency=1
>
> YOUR_API_KEY for our hosted Charcoal service can be requested by 
> filling in the form at http://charcoal.io or writing in to 
> charcoal at hopbox.in. The credentials for login to 
> https://active.charcoal.io to manage the ACL will be emailed along 
> with YOUR_API_KEY.
>
> License:
> --------
> URL Rewrite helper for squid is licensed under GPLv2.0 while Charcoal 
> Server is licensed under AGPLv3.0.
>
> GIT Repo:
> ---------
> Squid URL Rewrite helper can be downloaded from 
> https://github.com/Hopbox/charcoal-helper
>
> Git repository for Charcoal Server is at 
> https://github.com/Hopbox/charcoal
>
> Regards,
> Nishant
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Benjamin E. Nichols

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