Web Filtering; General Configuration Steps - Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-50R Installation And Configuration Manual

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Web filtering

General configuration steps

FortiGate-50R Installation and Configuration Guide
Web filtering is enabled in firewall policies. When you enable Anti-Virus & Web filter in
a firewall policy, you select a content profile that controls how web filtering behaves for
HTTP traffic. Content profiles control the following types of content filtering:
• blocking unwanted URLs,
• blocking unwanted content,
• removing scripts from web pages,
• exempting of URLs from blocking.
You can also use the Cerberian URL blocking to block unwanted URLs. For more
information, see
This chapter describes:
• General configuration steps
• Content blocking
• URL blocking
• Using the Cerberian web filter
• Script filtering
• Exempt URL list
Configuring web filtering involves the following general steps:
1 Select web filtering options in a new or existing content profile. See
profile" on page 141.
2 Select the Anti-Virus & Web filter option in firewall policies that allow HTTP
connections through the FortiGate unit.
• Select a content profile that provides the web filtering options that you want to
apply to a policy. See
3 Configure web filtering settings to control how the FortiGate unit applies web filtering
to the HTTP traffic allowed by policies. See:
• "URL blocking" on page
• "Using the Cerberian web filter" on page
• "Content blocking" on page
• "Script filtering" on page
• "Exempt URL list" on page
"Using the Cerberian web filter" on page
"Adding a content profile to a policy" on page
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208,
214,
215.
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"Adding a content
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