Protection profile configuration, Order of web filter operations – Fortinet 100A User Manual

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Web filter

Table 28: Web filter and Protection Profile web category filtering configuration

Protection profile configuration

For information about configuring Protection Profiles, see

“Protection profile” on

page 222

. For information about adding protection profiles to firewall policies, see

“To

add a protection profile to a policy” on page 229

.

Order of web filter operations

Web filtering includes various modules and engines that perform separate tasks. The
FortiGate unit performs web filtering in the order the filters appear in the web-based
manager menu: content block, URL block, URL exempt, category block (FortiGuard),
and script filter.

This chapter describes:

Content block

URL block

URL exempt

Category block

Script filter

Protection Profile web category filtering

Web Filter setting

Enable category block (HTTP only)

Web Filter > Category Block > Configuration

Enable FortiGuard web filtering.

Enable or disable FortiGuard and enable and

set the size limit for the cache.

Block unrated websites (HTTP only)
Block any web pages that have not been rated

by the FortiGuard.
Allow websites when a rating error occurs

(HTTP only)
Allow web pages that return a rating error

from FortiGuard.
Category / Action
FortiGuard web filtering service provides

many categories by which to filter web traffic.
You can set the action to take on web pages

for each category. Choose from allow,

monitor, or reject.

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