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FortiGate-400 Installation and Configuration Guide Version 2.50 MR2

Web filtering

Web filtering is enabled in firewall policies. When you enable Anti-Virus & Web filter in a firewall policy, you select a content profile that controls how web filtering behaves for HTTP traffic. Content profiles control the following types of content filtering:

•blocking unwanted URLs,

•blocking unwanted content,

•removing scripts from web pages,

•exempting of URLs from blocking.

You can also use the Cerberian URL blocking to block unwanted URLs. For more information, see “Using the Cerberian web filter” on page 272.

This chapter describes:

•General configuration steps

•Content blocking

•URL blocking

•Using the Cerberian web filter

•Script filtering

•Exempt URL list

General configuration steps

Configuring web filtering involves the following general steps:

1Select web filtering options in a new or existing content profile. See “Adding a content profile” on page 197.

2Select the Anti-Virus & Web filter option in firewall policies that allow HTTP connections through the FortiGate unit.

•Select a content profile that provides the web filtering options that you want to apply to a policy. See “Adding a content profile to a policy” on page 199.

3Configure web filtering settings to control how the FortiGate unit applies web filtering to the HTTP traffic allowed by policies. See:

•“URL blocking” on page 269,

•“Using the Cerberian web filter” on page 272,

•“Content blocking” on page 268,

•“Script filtering” on page 274,

•“Exempt URL list” on page 275.

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