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jbrown
I've searched through the manual and forums but haven't found a way to do this--I suspect I've missed something, because I know I've configured proxies to ban this in the past.

Is there any way to block via user-agent in the HTTP Proxy?  

Specifically, all I want to do is deny all access to "“User-Agent: iTunes/4.9 (Windows; N)" to keep people from bogging down the DSL when they decide they need to listen to podcasts in the office and the thing prefetches half a gig worth...

Realistically, I imagine other people *must* do something similar just to do things like enforce large business policy ("Oh look, somebody plugged in a personal laptop with I.E. 5.0--no--don't let them surf anywhere")..

Any suggestions?


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    If the proxy can't do it, the IPS probably could, assuming you can create & add a rule to detect iTunes.

    Barry
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    hello jbrown

    i you still have the requirement to block some user agents, you could do the following...

    add a web policy filter where user have to authenticate to browse the internet. block requests when authentication failed.

    then add an exeption for authentication for dedicated user agents.

    so you can block deidcated user agents.

    regards - michael

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