Router / firewall to block specific pages?

I'm working on finding a router for a small office that can block
specific pages, rather than whole sites or keywords. That is to say, I
want to be able to block www.apple.com/itunes/download.html but not
have to block www.apple.com or the keyword itunes to do it. Is there
something reasonable for a small office that will do this? Do I need to
go with a proxy server to accomplish it?

Thanks for any info...

Mick

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Mick wrote:
> I'm working on finding a router for a small office that can block
> specific pages, rather than whole sites or keywords. That is to say, I
> want to be able to block www.apple.com/itunes/download.html but not
> have to block www.apple.com or the keyword itunes to do it. Is there
> something reasonable for a small office that will do this? Do I need to
> go with a proxy server to accomplish it?

Why? Are people on your network consuming huge amounts of bandwidth
downloading music from iTunes, or do you have a control freak PHB who
likes to control what people do?

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Ummm... Actually, yes, we do want to control what people do at work.
And, oddly enough, we want it to be... Work.

Thanks for your helpful input though!

sodaant@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Why? Are people on your network consuming huge amounts of bandwidth
> downloading music from iTunes, or do you have a control freak PHB who
> likes to control what people do?

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In article <1163176328.536829.223380@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
wrote:
>
>Mick wrote:
>> I'm working on finding a router for a small office that can block
>> specific pages, rather than whole sites or keywords. That is to say, I
>> want to be able to block www.apple.com/itunes/download.html but not
>> have to block www.apple.com or the keyword itunes to do it.

>Why? Are people on your network consuming huge amounts of bandwidth
>downloading music from iTunes, or do you have a control freak PHB who
>likes to control what people do?

At my workplace, the similar policy came down from our President,
acting on the strong advice of our corporate lawyers that it would be a
Really Good Idea to follow the firm policy ordered by the Treasury
Board, which has strong authority to regulate how our branch of the
government operates. The Treasury Board was acting on the strong advice
of its lawyers. As best I've been able to gather, they had been asked
to -investigate- a question by the appropriate Federal Cabinet
Minister, and become very much concerned when their analysis was that
if there were a commercial lawsuit, that the government would almost
certainly lose and have to pay several tends of millions of dollars.

Nothing in the process involved a "control freak PHB": it was more
like, "Is this something we need to worry about??" and the sharks
looked at it and said "Oh Boy! We'd be up the excremented creek for
sure!"

Tweren't about control: it was about ducking big lawsuits.


At one of our sister-branches, the ISP "excess bandwdith" charges
traced to music downloads were (as best I recall after these years),
$C20,000 for 3 months. So for them it became a very direct equation:
stop the music to stop the bills, or lay a couple of people off in
order to apply the salaries saved towards payment of the bills for the
luxary.

I wonder what you would say if you had just been told, "I'm sorry, Mr.
Soda Ant; we have been very happy with your work, but we cannot afford
to retain you; it was either keep you or block your co-workers from
running up our ISP bills by downloading music; we don't want to risk
the possibility that someone would think we were control-freak PHBs if
we blocked the music, so we decided it was better economize your salary
so that we could let them play on." ?

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> A cheap DFL-700 will block by key words or segments, it will also block
> downloading of content in HTTP sessions - so you could block *.xyz and
> they could not download .xyz files.

How many keywords or segments can the DFL-700 block? We have a Netgear VPN,
but the number of keywords is very limited (about two dozen) and we need to
block several hundred.

Best,
Christopher

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> You've asked the same thing in three different posts,

Sorry, no one seems to know the answer. I contacted D Link tech support,
and they don't know. I downloaded the user manual, and it's not answred
there. My apologies for trying so hard to find the anwer.

Best,
Christopher

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