I don’t have a lot of time to post right now, but I just wanted to leave this note. Now that Facebook has completely rolled out their Facebook chat integration, I had to block it at work (The only chat allowed is our internal XMPP server.) Blocking the feature is as simple as blacklisting a single URL, drumroll….
http://facebook.com/ajax/chat/
Done, now users will see how many friends are online, but if they go to send anyone a message, it will never go through, and chat history does not show up. I am sure you can block more extensively, but for a quick and dirty fix, this does the trick. Love being an administrator…
Thank you so much, It is very elegant.
Thank you! Very useful. Simple and effective.
Thanks! AWsome ! Have a nice summer!!!
Thanks alot, noticed quite a few of our clients using this when they shouldnt (Ive banned chat) so this will do the trick.
Added that to Squid and it’s still working.
Checked the page source and it doesn’t mention that url at all.
@Arckane: It does not mention it in the source however if you run a TCP Dump you will see HTTP POST to that address. If you want to tighten it up even more you can block facebook.com/images/chat/ which will (obviously) block all images related to the chat interface. We could block certain javascript libraries/classes but that would break other things as well.
On another note, users will be able to receive messages, but not send using this block.