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Web filtering, General configuration steps – Fortinet FortiGate 4000 User Manual

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Web filtering

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 URLs from blocking.

You can also use the Cerberian URL filtering to block unwanted URLs. For more
information, see

“Configuring Cerberian URL filtering” on page 294

.

This chapter describes:

General configuration steps

Content blocking

URL blocking

Configuring Cerberian URL filtering

Script filtering

Exempt URL list

General configuration steps

Configuring web filtering involves the following general steps:

1

Select web filtering options in a new or existing content profile. See

“Adding content

profiles” on page 224

.

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

“Adding content profiles to policies” on page 226

.