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FortiGate-50A Installation and Configuration Guide Version 2.50

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 page 238.

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 page 169.

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.

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