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September 21, 2007

Blocking URLs with IPS signatures

  • September 21, 2007
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Description Blocking a specific URL with an IPS signature.
Components
  • All FortiGate units running FortiOS 3.0.
Steps or Commands

If you want to block your users from accessing specific URL, you can use the following IPS custom signature.

F-SBID(--protocol tcp; --service HTTP; --flow from_client; --pattern"URL_TO_BE_BLOCKED"; --no_case; --context host; )

Where the URL_TO_BE_BLOCKED is the specific URL.

Note that IPS does NOT send response pages back for blocked connections.

 

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