GLOBAL ADMINISTRATOR SECTION CHAPTER 2: GROUP SCREEN

URL Keyword Filter Control

With the URL Keyword Filter Control option enabled, URL keywords can be set up to be blocked. When a user enters a keyword in the address line of a browser window, if that keyword has been set up to be blocked, the user will be denied access to that site or service. URL keywords are entered in the URL Keywords window of 8e6 supplied library categories and custom library categories.

With the “Extend URL Keyword Filter Control” option enabled, a URL keyword search will be extended after the "?" character in a URL.

NOTE: To set up URL keywords in a URL Keywords window, see the following sections of this user guide for the specified library type:

8e6 Supplied Categories - see Chapter 3: Library screen, URL Keywords window, in this section.

Custom Category - see the Group Administrator Section, Chapter 2: Library screen, URL Keywords window.

WARNING: If this feature is activated, use extreme caution when setting up URL keywords for filtering. If a keyword that is entered in a browser’s address window contains the same consecutive characters as a keyword set up to be blocked, users will be denied access to URLs that are not even within blocked catego- ries. For example, if all URL keywords containing “sex” are blocked, users will not be able to access a non-pornographic site such as http://www.essex.com.

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