Re: Nginx as a forward proxy - denying contents by MIME type

For those who are looking for a working solution: I could solve this by installing a basic squid server and setting up nginx to simply forward requests to squid.

Here's the nginx config I use now:

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include proxy_params;

upstream squid {
server 127.0.0.1:3128;
}

# simple forwarding proxy facing the clients
server {
listen 192.168.182.2:80;

location / {
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_pass http://squid;
}
}

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To do the filtering based on MIME type, I just had to append these two lines to my squid.conf:

acl deny_rep_mime_types rep_mime_type audio/ video/
http_reply_access deny deny_rep_mime_types