[OPLINTECH] Websense/Proxy/Downloading

[Dan Will]

You could also use Smoothwall with Dansguardian. I've never had any problems
downloading files.

 

Dan Will

Technology Supervisor

Meigs County District Public Library

willda at oplin.org

740.992.5813

740.992.6140 (fax)

 

 

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Fiction has to make sense.

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On
Behalf Of JKENZIG
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 5:48 PM
To: Tyra Ealy; oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Websense/Proxy/Downloading

 

Hi Tyra,

Websense is designed to prevent downloads. You could use something like
http://www.hopster.com/ to get around it.  I've heard entropy bandied about
to do it also.

http://entropy.stop1984.com/en/home.html.

 

Jim Kenzig

Network Manager

Cuyahoga County Public library

 

 

 

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org on behalf of Tyra Ealy
Sent: Fri 7/18/2008 3:52 PM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Websense/Proxy/Downloading

Dear Ohio Techies,

 

Here's something to ponder over the weekend...

We've been having an ongoing problem (many months have passed) that has just
stumped everyone.

We use Websense filtering.  Just got a new server in hopes that a clean
machine & install would solve this problem--but it did not.

 

Websense is used as a proxy.  With the proxy on, we cannot download files.
No error messages.

The files "appear" to download, but when you check the size it is never
complete.

This happens on every browser we've tried--IE7, Firefox 3.0 and Safari
3.1.2.

We're all Windows XP.

 

Turn the proxy off... all is well (except, of course, that we're no longer
filtering)!

 

Any and all ideas welcome!

Have a great weekend!

Tyra

 

Tyra L. Ealy

Information Technology Manager

Warren-Trumbull County Public Library

444 Mahoning Ave. NW

Warren, OH 44483

Phone: 330-399-8807, ext. 140

FAX: 330-395-3988

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