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Walled Garden Access

On the Internet, a walled garden typically controls a user's access to web content and services. The walled garden
directs the user's navigation within particular areas to allow access to a selection of websites or prevent access to
other websites.

Creating Walled Garden Access

Walled garden access is needed when an external captive portal is used. A common example could be a hotel
environment where unauthenticated users are allowed to navigate to a designated login page (for example, a hotel
website) and all its contents.
Users who do not sign up for Internet service can view "allowed" websites (typically hotel property websites). The
website names must be DNS-based (not IP address based) and support the option to define wildcards. This works
for client devices with or without HTTP proxy settings.
When a user attempts to navigate to other websites not configured in the white list walled garden profile, the user
is redirected back to the login page. In addition, the black listed walled garden profile is configured to explicitly
block navigation to websites from unauthenticated users.
Figure 74
To create a Walled Garden access:
1. In the Settings window, select Walled Garden.
2. Click New and enter the domain name or URL in the Whitelist field. This will allow access while the user
remains unauthenticated. Specify a POSIX regular expression (regex(7)), for example
yahoo.com matches various domains such as news.yahoo.com, travel.yahoo.com and finance.yahoo.com
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www.apple.com/library/test will only allow subset of www.apple.com site corresponding to path /library/
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test/*
favicon.ico will allow access to /favicon.ico from all domains.
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