topic Re: Manual URL Filtering in Network Security

Manual URL Filtering

gcook0001 — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:41:32 GMT

I am working trying to limit users to certain sites within a domain using manual url filtering.

I have a rule that blocks discord.com which works

I do want users to be able to access certain channels within discord.

source: internal network

destination: discord.com/login (I tried this with https:// as well)

discord.com/channels/@me (I tried this with https:// as well)

discord.com/channels/1019669992859516958/1019669992859516961 (I tried this with https:// as well)

Action: allow

source: internal network

destination: discord.com

action: block

I don't get access to the three links above. According to the documentation on manual url filtering if a / is detected then it matchs the whole string.

Re: Manual URL Filtering

Alan Inman — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:12:42 GMT

Gcook, are you placing your URLs you want to allow before your discord.com block in your ACL? Here is what I found on the "/" character. Is this the documentation you are referencing?

Re: Manual URL Filtering

gcook0001 — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:07:33 GMT

Thanks for the response. Yes they are in the right order. What you posted is what I have been using as a reference. To further update, the next day when I came back in to the office the block wasn't working either and the allow rule was disabled. I am going to have to create a ticket with TAC as the filter is definitely not working as stated.