Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > The reason I need this is that my current best strategy to avoid ads > in web pages is putting all ad server names into /etc/hosts and stick > my local ip number next to them (127.0.0.1) so every ad request goes > to my machine. I run apache which has an empty page for 404 errors so > I'll just see that blank page for every ad. Now I guess apache is a > pretty heavy weight guy so I'm looking for a lightweight alternative. > Lighttpd, nginx and company are all too complex and "know" too much. I > even considered just putting netcat into an infinite loop but I'm > afraid if there is a security hole in netcat I might be screwed.
I don't know if this qualifies as "lightweight", but my current best strategy is to block ads using a Squid proxy. My /etc/squid/squid.conf has: acl ads dstdom_regex -i "/etc/squid/squid.adservers" http_access deny ads deny_info javascript:void(0) ads /etc/squid/squid.adservers came from this site: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ Ads completely disappear with no visible errors or unnecessary HTTP requests. (Sorry, no Python needed for this one.) Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
