Configuring FortiGuard Web Filter settings
FortiGuard Web Filter includes a number of settings that allow you to determine various aspects of the filtering behavior.
To configure FortiGuard Web Filter settings
1. Go to Security Profiles > Web Filter > Profile.
2. Select the web filter profile in which you want to enable FortiGuard Web Filter from the drop down list in the Edit Web Filter Profile window title bar, or select Create New to add a new web filter profile.
3. The category groups are listed in a table. You can expand each category group to view and configure every category within the groups. If you change the setting of a category group, all categories within the group inherit the change.
4. Select the category groups and categories to which you want to apply an action.
5. Select an action from the Change Action for Selected Categories drop-down list immediately below the category table. Five actions are available:
• Allow permits access to the sites within the category.
• Monitor permits and logs access to sites in the category. You may also enable user quotas when enabling the monitor action.
• Warning presents the user with a message, allowing them to continue if they choose.
• Authenticate requires a user authenticate with the FortiGate unit before being allowed access to the category or category group.
• Block prevents access to sites within the category. Users attempting to access a blocked site will receive a replacement message explaining that access to the site is blocked.
6. Select OK.
| In older versions of FortiOS there was a character limitation for the URL of 2048 bytes or approximately 321 characters. If the URL you were trying to reach was longer the URL sent to FortiGuard would be truncated and the service would be unable to categorize the site. Starting in version 5 of the firmware the parsed URL has been increase to 4Kilobytes, effectively doubling the length of a URL capable of being categorized. |