FortiGate-50A Installation and Configuration Guide Version 2.50
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Web filteringWhen 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.