Re: Squid forced advertisement

Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On 05/03/2010 08:02 AM, spank3h wrote:
>
>> looking for abit of advise really....
>> my project in hand is to have a given hotspot (which is already live) but
>> when users browse the internet to have forced adverts on there browser. I
>> understand that they have to be pushed through a proxy so i set up squid on
>> a server based in the UK now wondering if anyone has heard of this before or
>> might be able to give me some sort of advise on how to progress further with
>> this challenge!?
>
>
> If you want injected advertisements share the page with the original
> content (e.g., a thin ad bar on top of the page), you will need to use
> ICAP or eCAP to modify "pages" on the fly. It is difficult to do
> correctly, writing code is required, and you will annoy both users and
> content owners, but it can be done in most cases.
>
> If you want injected advertisements to suspend (or even cancel) the
> delivery of the original content, then you can use redirectors, ICAP,
> eCAP, and possibly other tricks. This application becomes similar to the
> initial proxy login page then, except the page is annoying and appears
> more often. You may be able to find and adjust existing solutions
> without writing [a lot of] code.
>

Indeed. A simple as session helper plus a deny_info redirect (passing
%s) to a page which pulls in one advert and has a skip link to direct
back to the originally requested URL.

Amos

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