[ILUG] aib 24hour-online

[Noel Carroll]

I found the security thread that this subject kicked off pretty good and it
occured to me that, while I'd often heard of Internet Junkbuster, I'd never
gone tot he trouble of installing it.   I rectified this last night but ran
into problems.  I'm sure I could sort these out with a bit of reading but
I'm not going to have the chance over the coming evenings and it was
midnight when I started up my machine last night which gave me 2 hours max
for surfing, and installing JB.   I followed the instructions on the site on
how to configure squid and to set JB up.   I set my browser up to use a
proxy @ port 8000 and all went well.   When I started squid and JB manually
the ads were not being blocked on /. so I shut things down and restarted
squid and then restarted JB with the command line  'JunkBuster config -h
blockfile &'.    When I started browsing again, Netscape threw up a
JunkBuster page saying that it could not reach /. due to a broken pipe.
Same happened with other sites and I could reference the config arguments
with the /view_server_params url.  I think thats the correct one.   At that
point time had caught up with me so I had to call it a night.  Anyone got
any idea what I did wrong?

Noel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall [mailto:niall at magicgoeshere.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 4:14 PM
> To: ILUG
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] aib 24hour-online
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 02:56:15PM +0100, adam beecher wrote:
> > > > What annoys me most is that you have to have cookies 
> switched on. grrrr.
> > >
> > > Your preferred solution to this is ... ?
> > >
> > 
> > I'd be curious about that one too - I could never 
> understand the general
> > misinformation about cookies propogated on the Internet. 
> Cookie Central
> > <http://www.cookiecentral.com> for example - apparently an 
> "authority" on
> > cookies - paints them in a very bad light, and seems to try 
> to push users to
> > block them as fast as possible. They're very sparse on 
> detail of the advantages
> > of cookies, which are numerous. They can save a hell of a 
> lot of bother and fuss
> > for both the user and the developer for a start.
> 
> The reason sensible people try to avoid cookies as far as 
> possible is that
> very many unscrupulous organisations and web sites 
> (DoubleClick being the
> best know example) use cookies to gather information on 
> people in order to
> market to them as effectively as possible. Many people don't 
> object to this
> - many others, of which I and Noel Carrol are examples, 
> object strongly to
> this and so we disable cookies, which is a problem which we 
> want to use
> sites which use cookies, even for non-nefarious reasons. One technical
> solution to this is to use a cookie blocking proxy (I use Internet
> Junkbuster) and not to proxy the required sites. In this way, 
> you leave
> cookies on in your browser, but the proxy keeps them away 
> (oh! - IJB blocks
> ads too :-) )
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Niall
> 
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