Temporarily Disabling The Url Block List; Temporarily Disabling Blocking Individual Urls; Clearing The Url Block List; Creating The Url Block List Using A Text Editor - D-Link DFL-500 User Manual

You can also add URLs to the URL block list by entering them into a text file and then uploading the text file
to the DFL-500. See

Temporarily disabling the URL block list

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Go to Web Filter > URL Block .
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Uncheck Enable URL Block to disable the URL blocking.

Temporarily disabling blocking individual URLs

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Go to Web Filter > URL Block .
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Uncheck the check box by individual URLs in the list so that web pages from these URLs are not blocked
by the DFL-500.

Clearing the URL block list

Use the following procedure to remove all of the URLs and patterns from the URL block list.
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Go to Web Filter > URL Block .
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Click Delete to remove all of the URLs from the URL block list.

Creating the URL block list using a text editor

You can create a URL block list in a text editor and then upload this text file to the DFL-500.
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In a text editor, create the list of URLs and patterns to block.
Type one URL or pattern on each line in the text file. Follow the entry with a space and a 1 to enable or a
zero (0) to disable the blocked URL.
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Using the web-based manager, go to Web Filter > URL Block .
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Click Upload URL Block list
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Enter the path and filename of your URL block list text file, or click Browse and locate the file.
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Click OK to upload the file to the DFL-500.
The DFL-500 uploads the file.
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Click Return to display the updated URL block list.
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You can continue to maintain the URL block list by making changes to the text file and uploading it again.
All changes made to the URL block list from the web-based manager are lost when you upload a new list.
Downloading the URL block list
If you make changes to the URL block list using the web-based manager, you can download the list to a text
file using the following procedure:
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From the web-based manager, go to Web Filter > URL Block .
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Click Download URL Block list
The DFL-500 downloads the list to a text file on the management computer.
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Creating the URL block list using a text
to upload your list.
to download the list to your management computer.
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