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November 1, 2024

Troubleshooting Tip: Traffic denied because of explicit proxy policy

  • November 1, 2024
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Description This article describes how to resolve an issue where users cannot access certain websites and their traffic is denied because of an explicit proxy policy, even when a deep inspection SSL profile has been enabled on one of the explicit proxy policies.
Scope SWG SSO.
Solution

Some websites are denied with a 'Traffic denied because of explicit proxy policy' message because the traffic has triggered the 'Implicit Deny' policy. 

Deep inspection has enabled on the SWG policy.

 

Check the SSL inspection profile:

 

Go to Configuration -> Security -> SSL profile -> Configure SSL -> Check the Exemptions list.

 

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Example of Finance and Banking category: alipay.com.

 

Blocked page on client browser:

 

alipay.png

 

 From the FortiSASE portal, the traffic log will show as follows:

 

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To fix the issue, remove the URL category from the SSL exemption list:

 

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