Fortinet FortiGate-800 manual Exempt URL list, Adding URLs to the URL Exempt list, 300

Exempt URL list Web filtering

Exempt URL list

Add URLs to the exempt URL list to allow legitimate traffic that might otherwise be blocked by content or URL blocking. For example, if content blocking is set to block pornography-related words and a reputable website runs a story on pornography, web pages from the reputable website are blocked. Adding the address of the reputable website to the exempt URL list allows the content of the website to bypass content blocking.

Note: Content downloaded from exempt web pages is not blocked or scanned by antivirus protection.

•Adding URLs to the URL Exempt list

•Downloading the URL Exempt List

•Uploading a URL Exempt List

Adding URLs to the URL Exempt list

1Go to Web Filter > URLExempt.

2Select New to add an item to the URL Exempt list.

3Type the URL to exempt.

Type a complete URL, including path and filename, to exempt access to a page on a website. For example, www.goodsite.com/index.html exempts access to the main page of this example website. You can also add IP addresses; for example, 122.63.44.67/index.html exempts access to the main web page at this address. Do not include http:// in the URL to exempt.

Exempting a top-level URL, such as www.goodsite.com, exempts all requested subpages (for example, www.goodsite.com/badpage) from all content and URL filtering rules.

Note: Exempting a top-level URL does not exempt pages such as mail.goodsite.com from all content and URL filtering rules unless goodsite.com (without the www) is added to the exempt URL list.

4Ensure that the Enable checkbox has been selected.

5Select OK to add the URL to the exempt URL list.

You can enter multiple URLs and then select Check All to activate all items in the exempt URL list.

You can disable all the URLs in the list by selecting Uncheck All . Each page of the exempt URL list displays 100 URLs.

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

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