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Anonymous_User
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June 6, 2006
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Webfilter Override wildcards in URL?

  • June 6, 2006
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Is it possible to use a wildcard in the URL portion of the Web Filter Fortiguard - Web Filter -> Override when overriding (whitelisting) a web site that falls into a category that is being blocked through Fortiguard Web Filtering? For example, www.expedia.com is being blocked as a Spam URL. I won' t debate whether or not it is but some of my users use this site and I don' t want it blocked. So, if I put in *.expedia.com, www.expedia.com is still blocked. Not a big deal for this site, but other sites that may use different host names throughout their domain I want just one override done for the entire domain. Is this possible? Thanks. Stewart@UGA

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    abelio
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    abelio
    SuperUser
    June 6, 2006
    it seems that you' re mixing AntiSpam and WebFilter FG services. If you need whitelist expedia.com because is FGuard AS listed, use CLI, for example: 
      config spamfilter emailbwl     edit 1        set email-pattern " expedia.com"         set pattern-type wildcard        set action clear        set status enable     next    end
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    Anonymous_UserAuthor
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    June 6, 2006
    I was actually asking about the Webfilter FG Service. Under my web protection profile, under FG Web Filtering I have the Spam URL category blocked. It looks like there are a few sites that are in there that might not be related to Spam. So, when my users go to www.expedia.com in a web browser they get the error page that this site is blocked b/c it is in the category Spam URL. I didn' t necessarily want to turn off this block (unless there are just too many false positives) but instead put in overrides in teh Web Filter to allow them. And it looks like there is no way through the gui to use a wildcard, for instance *.expedia.com does not do the trick, I have to put in www.expedia.com to allow my users to the main expedia site. Now my next question is, are there just too many false positives to make this service useful? I' m just trying to help keep my users our of trouble so to speak by not allowing them to any potentially dangerous web sites. We are a higher education institution, but we have no students in my department but at the same time I don' t want to limit too much what my users are doing other than what is reasonable to keep them away from any dangerous sites.
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    Anonymous_UserAuthor
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    June 20, 2006
    stewharr, inserting just expedia.com will do the trick; no leading *, no leading dot.
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