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Old 07-02-2008, 04:04 AM   #16
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That was my point - a good web-based mail client will be encrypted, and as such its content will be essentially undetectable in terms of simple white/blacklisting. The OP want's to prevent his user's from being able to use web-mail. While he can block many common web-mail providers by domain name (gmail, hotmail, aol), he certainly won't be able to block all the others who's names are not known a priori.
 
Old 07-02-2008, 04:27 AM   #17
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While he can block many common web-mail providers by domain name (gmail, hotmail, aol), he certainly won't be able to block all the others who's names are not known a priori.
Right, but using some clever URL regular expression matching will definitely help, though. And like I said, there's always the hideous option of issuing internal certs in order to analyse the content of all pages that would have been SSL protected (which of course would still be far from fool-proof). With a setup like that he could even go into overkill mode and break every input text box found on any non-approved page.
 
  


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