FortiGate-50A Installation and Configuration Guide Version 2.50
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Web filtering
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 URLs from blocking.
You can also use the Cerberian URL filtering to block unwanted URLs. For more
information, see “Configuring Cerberian URL filtering” on page238.
This chapter describes:
General configuration steps
Content blocking
URL blocking
Configuring Cerberian URL filtering
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 content
profiles” on page 167.
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 content profiles to policies” on page169.
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 235,
“Configuring Cerberian URL filtering” on page 238,
“Content blocking” on page 232,
“Script filtering” on page 240,
“Exempt URL list” on page 241.