Filtering MP3's

[toocaize]

Hi, can anyone help, I work in an educational environment and so we block MP3's, no problem....but some of the educational sites ( notably the French Language sites ) use Flash resources that access MP3's. This means that we can access the graphical sections but the audio is blocked.
Any ideas how to get round this or do we make the Students' day and cancel all the French lessons.
Thanks
A frustrated linguist

[adrien]

You can't cancel the french lessons!

There should be a way to allow the particular MP3s you want to be able to access. Do you know the sites these files come from?

How are you currently blocking the MP3s, through WinGate, or some other gateway software?

Adrien

[toocaize]

We use Wingate banned list to restrict MP3's and the site we are accessing is http://zut.languageskills.co.uk/login.html , account id is 1523 and password is gwdschool. Use Year7, Talking about yourself, and either of the flash audio files for the full ( or otherwise ) French experience.
Thanks

[Pascal]

The easiest way is to override the entry with PureSight's allow list. It will take a bit of time, as you'll have to see the URL for each MP3 and add that in the allow list, but that should resolve it for you.

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From the PureSight helpfile:

As with most non-manual systems however, there is a possibility for false positives - or even pages which cannot be categorised. This particularly applies to Flash-based websites. Because of this, PureSight has an Allow List and a Ban List, where you can specify partial phrases that are matched in the URL.

For example, if you add:

nzherald

to the Allow List, then all URLs which contains the word "nzherald" will always be allowed through i.e.

www.somegambling.org/nzherald/gamblinginnz.html
www.nzherald.co.nz

and so on. The sequence for evaluation is:

(a) Allow List
(b) Ban List
(c) Artificial Content Recognition

This means that where there are conflicts, the content in the Allow List overrides the content in the Ban List and the ACR, and the content in the Ban List also overrides the content in the ACR.