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Web filter URL block
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This section describes:
• Web URL block list
• Web URL block options
• Configuring the web URL block list
• Web pattern block list
• Web pattern block options
• Configuring web pattern block
Web URL block list
You can add your own specific URLs to block or you can obtain one of several publicly
available lists of objectionable URLs. You can add the following items to the URL
block list:
• complete URLs
• IP addresses
• partial URLs to block all sub-domains
If you want to use more than one URL block list, simply combine the lists in a text file
and upload them to the FortiGate unit by selecting the Upload URL block list icon.
URLs in a text file must be separated by hard returns to upload correctly.
Figure 161:Sample Web URL block list
Web URL block options
Web URL block has the following icons and features:
Configuring the web URL block list
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.
Create New Select Create New to add a URL to the URL block list.
total The number of URLs in the URL block list.
The Page up, Page down, and Clear URL block list icons.
URL The current list of blocked URLs. Select the check box to enable all the
URLs in the list.
The Delete and Edit/View icons.
Note: Do not use regular expressions in the web URL block list. You can use regular
expressions in the web pattern block list to create URL patterns to block. See “Web pattern
block list” on page 328 .