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James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Apr 28 11:03:45 EDT 2006


Check out some kiosk extensions for Firefox.

The rest sounds like a task for squid. Basically, you need a proxy
server that allows the Internet to be OFF except for a narrow list of
sites.

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 10:37 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a computer with an Internet connection in a foyer running SUSE 
> 10.0.  I would like to restrict KDE so that Firefox is the only thing that 
> can be accessed.  Also, I would like to restrict Firefox so that it goes to 
> just one Web site.  Any suggestions?  I could use iptables to restrict 
> Firefox. However, the web site to which I want to point has numerous links 
> to other web sites which is OK.  So because of that, iptables could get 
> messy unless there is a way to check for "REFER" in the header and if 
> "REFER" is found, let the request through. Can iptables do that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry Bailey
> 
> 
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