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Metered HTTP Proxy?

Posted by Cliff on from the internet-traffic-cop-(and-parent) dept.

Jon asks: "My brother-in-law has three teenage daughters. The only thing that he has to hold over their head is being online. I am trying to find him an HTTP proxy server that has metering built in. I started with Squid which has the authentication stuff in it but we would like something where we could allocate minutes, like some of the WiFi stuff you encounter at a hot spot."

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  1. Got the same problem here... by darnok · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My requirements:
    - need to be able to limit each daughter to e.g. 1Gb of traffic. Once they hit that, bzzt, no more Internet access till next month. After that, they can either experience the joys of 28kb/s downloading or grovel at someone's feet to let them browse under another login id
    - each daughter needs to be able to check how much Internet "allowance" she has left
    - need to be able to limit use to a specific period of the day. With holidays coming up, I don't want them to be sitting in their rooms all day chatting... Ideally, I'd be able to block out individual sites (e.g. MSN) while leaving other stuff untouched
    - need to be able to block out the most noxious sites. For some reason, teenage girls can't seem to resist downloading crapware if it calls itself "PicOfGoodCharlotte.exe" or something similar...

    Yep, I'm aware that I could set up something that does most/all of this, but frankly there's not enough hours in the day at present to do so.