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URL blocking Web filtering

3Type the URL/Pattern to block.

Type a top-level URL or IP address to block access to all pages on a website. For example, www.badsite.com or 122.133.144.155 blocks access to all pages at this website.

Type a top-level URL followed by the path and filename to block access to a single page on a website. For example, www.badsite.com/news.html or 122.133.144.155/news.html blocks the news page on this website.

To block all pages with a URL that ends with badsite.com, add badsite.com to the block list. For example, adding badsite.com blocks access to www.badsite.com, mail.badsite.com, www.finance.badsite.com, and so on.

Note: Do not include http:// in the URL to block. Do not use an asterisk (*) to represent any characters. You can type a top-level domain suffix (for example, “com” without the leading period) to block access to all URLs with this suffix.

Note: URL blocking does not block access to other services that users can access with a web browser. For example, URL blocking does not block access to ftp://ftp.badsite.com. Instead, you can use firewall policies to deny FTP connections.

4Select Enable to block the URL/Pattern.

5Select OK to add the URL/Pattern to the URL block list.

You can enter multiple URLs and patterns and then select Check All to enable all items in the URL block list.

Each page of the URL block list displays 100 URLs.

6Use Page Up and Page Down to navigate through the URL block list.

Note: You must select the Web URL Block option in the content profile to enable the URL blocking.

Figure 39: Example URL block list

Clearing the URL block list

1 Go to Web Filter > URL Block.

2 Select Clear URL Block List to remove all URLs and patterns from the URL block list.

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