Webfilter rules: 'path'

[JG1]

What is the default action if the 'path' part is not defined? I understand that a single '/' will be automatically removed when such a rule of the "simple" type is added, which seems to make blocking of all URLs under a domain using this filter type not so simple.

[MichaelBazy]

Hi Jie,

Not sure to understand your question here : 

With "simple", if you only specify the host, the matching criteria will be on all URL behind that host.

However the action will be the one you choose. By default it's "exempt", but it can be "allow", "block" or "monitor".

Sounds pretty simple to me :)

Feel free to be more specific if I'm not clear.

[JG1]

Hi Michael

Thanks very much for answering this question.

I think it was the word "action" that caused the confusion for you here. For I was not actually referring to an issue of the choice of block/exempt/monitor, but rather to the URL path matching. The manual has the following:

The 'path' part

For the path part, an exact match takes place.

So if the "/" is automatically stripped by the system, then it would not be illogical to assume that no URL paths would match "nothing". And there lies the confusion I had, and so did some of my colleagues here.

Thanks very much for clearing that up.

Regards,

Jie

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