Hi all,
Is there a way to filter on FGT 5.6.x inside a proxy policy by custom User-Agent?
I know there are some specific proxy-source objects which can be configured with some User-Agents (e.g. Internet Explorer in drop-down list).
In my case I need to filter for a custom User-Agent.
I know it's possible to build customer application signatures but unfortuantely I couldn't find any information on how to build such customer signatures. Is it like SNORT syntax?
In the logs I see that FGT recognizes the User-Agent correctly, so probably there should also be a way to use that information for proxy rules?!
Thanks for feedback
Cheers Thrillseeker
I wrote article many years back on my custom UA signature. For HTTPS website you need decryption in order to use the signature for the obvious reasons and how much of a DPI resource hit for decryption and UA inspection are ?s that you would need to take into considerations
http://socpuppet.blogspot.com/2014/06/using-fortigate-firewall-to-find-and.html
To answer the 1st part, I never seen a predefined UA list but really haven't did a lot of UA filter in a proxy.
Ken Felix
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