Please note: This will not block HTTPS/Secure Facebook sessions. You will need to use some other tool to do that. Options might be DNS/IPTables or higher level url blocking.

 

We have a need to block facebook chat, we chose that due to the overuse of it. Why not block all of facebook? Well overall most people only check the status update of others.. apart from that there is nothing much else to do apart from chat.

simply just created a ACL for url path

/ajax/chat/
/ajax/chat/buddy_list.php
buddy_list.php
/presence/popout.php
/friends/ajax/edit_list.php
edit_list.php
chat.php

This is very disruptive and gives the impression that the chat is semi working.. so the user just accepts there is an issue with facebook itself & not a company policy.

J