How Site Patterns Work - McAfee TSA00M005PAA - Total Protection Service Product Manual

Using Browser Protection and Web Filtering
Authorize and prohibit sites by URL or domain
NOTE: By authorizing a site, the browser protection service ignores the safety rating for that
site. Users can access authorized sites even if threats have been reported on these sites and
they have a safety rating of red. Users can also access unsafe downloads and phishing pages
on authorized sites. It is important to exercise caution when adding authorized sites to an
Exceptions list.

How site patterns work

The Exceptions list uses site patterns to specify a range of sites that are authorized
or prohibited. This enables you to authorize or prohibit a particular domain or a
range of similar sites without entering each URL separately.
When a client computer attempts to navigate to a site, the browser protection
service checks whether the URL matches any site patterns configured in the
Exceptions list. It uses specific criteria to determine a match.
A site pattern consists of a URL or partial URL, which the browser protection service
interprets as two distinct sections: domain and path.
Site pattern: www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise
http://
www.mcafee.com
/us/enterprise
Site patterns must be at last six characters in length, and they do not accept wildcard
characters. The browser protection service does not check for matches in the middle
or end of URLs.
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• http://www.info.mcafee.com
• http://mcafee.com
This is the domain. The domain consists of two parts:
• Protocol. In this case: http://
• Internet domain. In this case: www.mcafee.com
Domain information is matched from the end. A matching URL's domain
must end with the site pattern's domain. The protocol can vary.
These domains match:
• http:// ftp.mcafee.com
• https://mcafee.com
• http://www.info.mcafee.com
These domains do not match:
• http:// www.mcafee.downloads.com
• http://mcafee.net
• http://www.mcafeeasap.com
• http://us.mcafee.com
This is the path. The path includes everything that follows the / after the
domain.
Path information is matched from the beginning. A matching URL's path
must begin with the site pattern's path.
These paths match:
• /us/enterpriseproducts
• /us/enterprise/products/security
These paths do not match:
• /emea/enterprise
• /info/us/enterprise
Does not match
• http://www.mcafeeasap.com
• http://salesmcafee.com