Blocking explicit URLs

[flyerhawk]

Hey folks,

So I'm trying to figure out a way where I can block a specific URL on a web server.   I can create filters for the host name of course but I'm trying to figure out how to block www.example.com/blah/index.html for instance while leaving www.example.com open in general.

Can anyone help me out with this?

[Jeffrey Ness]

You can do this with a custom URL category in the bottom box of regular expressions escaping the special characters. So for your example above you would use:

http://www\.example\.com/blah/index\.html

[alessandro.s]

Hi,

If you're talking about IronPort Appliances you can create a custom URL category where  you can add a regular expression like .example.com/blah/index.html . In regular expressions you can also use * so you can block or allow specific paths like .example.com/blah/* etc...

Then add the custom URL category you created to your access policy with action "block" .

Hope this helps.

Regards

[flyerhawk]

Thanks Jeff and Allessandro!  I guess that was fairly obvious.