Proxy bypass sites regex

[webman]

Hi everyone

Recently noticed a lot of attempts by students on the old web-based proxy scripts. Worked out a couple of regexes to match a some common URL formats. They work fine on our IPCop + URLFilter box. Exmaples:

\.(cgi|pl)/([01]+)([A-Z]{1})/)

Example: http://judahjohnson.com/index.pl/010...2s696q672s6r6s

(index|browse|index2)\.php\?(q|u)=

Example: http://whackyourlecturer.com/browse....lvdXR1YmUuY29t

Full list Updated 22/07/2008

\?(q|u)=(.*)&hl=([A-Za-z0-9]{3,})
\.php/(.*)/b([0-9]{2,})/
\.php\?rob=(.*)&hl=([A-Za-z0-9]{3})
\.(cgi|pl)/([01]+)([A-Z]{1})/)
\.php/([01A-Z]+)/([A-Za-z0-9]+)
\.php/(.*)/0/go.php$
(index|browse|index2)\.php\?(q|u)=

[tom_newton]

you might find that those rules overblock slightly - certainly for CGI proxy you can be a bit less aggressive in your blocking and still be effective.

[bossman]

Would rather overblock than underblock we can always add to white list any site that needs unfiltering. It works and damn well the little bu**ers can't bypass the proxy now. Our ISP have still not managed to sort it out yet!!!

BTW Tom how would you have done it?

[Sylv3r]

Our ISP have still not managed to sort it out yet!!!

Give them time

[webman]

Give them time

How long should we give them... decades or millennia?

[Sylv3r]

How long should we give them... decades or millennia?

We wanted some ports open last week, when we rang up today to chase them the person had closed the job ticket.

Ports are still not open, but unfortunately now he is now on his holidays so we have to wait for him coming back before the job will get done! It could only happen to us that the "Port Opener" is unavailable as he is on his sun lounger in Spain!

So something as "difficult" as web filtering.....

[webman]

We wanted some ports open last week, when we rang up today to chase them the person had closed the job ticket.

Ports are still not open, but unfortunately now he is now on his holidays so we have to wait for him coming back before the job will get done! It could only happen to us that the "Port Opener" is unavailable as he is on his sun lounger in Spain!

So something as "difficult" as web filtering.....

Same thing happened to us! A little over 2 weeks by the time it was finally open. Surely somebody else there can open a port? It's not rocket science. Even better would be to give us basic access to the boxes but that seems to be asking too much

Good luck with your ports

[tom_newton]

bossman: I would have just asked for "more" 0101 etc. - it is pretty much always the same length, i'd definitely look for 3 consecutive [01]
PHProxy is hard to do via URL only - we do much more in-page on that one. I remember one specific occasion finding a rule accidentally blocked nhs.net which was targetted at phproxy.

I suppose overblocking is far more of a concern for me - if we overblock, it happens to hundreds of thousands of users and I can't guarantee whats in the whitelist!