Chapter 4: Configuration
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URL Filtering
URL (Uniform Resource Locator – e.g. an address in the form of
or
) filter rules allow you to prevent users on your network from accessing
particular websites by their URL. There are no pre-defined URL filter rules; you can add filter rules
to meet your requirements.
Enable/Disable:
To enable or disable URL Filter feature.
Block Mode:
A list of the modes that you can choose to check the URL filter rules. The default is
set to
Disabled.
~
Disabled:
No action will be performed by the Block Mode.
~
Always On:
Action is enabled.
URL filter rules will be monitoring and checking at all hours
of the day.
~
TimeSlot1 ~ TimeSlot16:
It is self-defined time period.
You may specify the time period to
check the URL filter rules, i.e. during working hours. For setup and detail, refer to
Time
Schedule
section.
Keywords Filtering:
Allows blocking by specific keywords within a particular URL rather than
having to specify a complete URL (e.g. to block any image called “advertisement.gif”). When
enabled, your specified keywords list will be checked to see if any keywords are present in URLs
accessed to determine if the connection attempt should be blocked. Please note that the URL filter
blocks web browser (HTTP) connection attempts using port 80 only.