Introduction

SquidTL is a software created for administrators that want to limit usage of particular web sites. Because HTTP is a stateless protocol, it's very difficulty to calculate the right amount of visits by an user, so SquidTL check the amount of connections originated by each proxy user.
For example, if you own a library internet point and don't want guests spend all your time on Facebook, you can limit all facebook domains to 'n' connections per hour. And, if an user go over, he will be redirect to a 'blocked' page and his attempt will be recorded for statistical pourposes (that let administrator to fine-tune triggers).
Moreover you can define time range validity for rules, so you can specify different profiles per-week based.
To sum up, you can safely try SquidTL to regulate your public internet point usage !

Rules syntax

All rules use Gnu RegExp (GNU Regular Expressions) to match IP, IP ranges and domains. You can define IP ranges or domains with the semplicity and flexibility of regular expressions !

Requirements

SquidTL require a MySQL DB, with developers headers and libraries for compiling. Also libXML2 is required for configuration parsing and, if you want to use the fantastic PHP web gui, you need also a web server (like Apache) and PHP.

Flow

To understand how SquidTL work, take a look to the workflow:

All actions will be done using the powerfull of MySQL DB. SquidTL was written in C for performances and stability so you can expect high throughput with low system resources.

GUI Screenshots

Installation

Get sources squidtl-0.0.6.tar.gz and follow the instructions inside INSTALL file.

Changelist

Wish List

• Improve reports
• Daily limits (not only minute-based)

0.0.6 - 21 Dec 2009

• This is mainly a bug fixed release
• Start support for URL categorization service (through XML-RPC)

0.0.5 - 15 Dec 2009

• Use of url lists (text files) for rules, instead of add manually all domains which needs the same rule
• Statistic module bugfixes
• Added GUI sanity checks
• Created install.php script for easier DB installation
• Some minor bugs fixed

0.0.4 - 9 Dec 2009

• Some bugs fixed
• Statistics module
• XMLRPC service for notifications on new releases

0.0.3 - 4 Dec 2009

• Add time rules on filtering rules
• Add instructions how to install on Debian and Ubuntu
• First approach to statistics module
• Fix a nasty bug for IP range identification
• Fix some other bugs

0.0.2.1 - 2 Dec 2009

• fixes some problems with compilation under Debian and other distros

0.0.2 - 1 Dec 2009

• Support for IP ranges with dymanic users
• Localization for the GUI (actually english and italian)
• GUI Authentication
• Group and users management
• Rules export in CSV, XML and Plain format
• Bug fixes and improvements

0.0.1 - 24 Nov 2009

First public release. BETA.

Support

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License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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