How to block HTTPS facebook and other HTTPS websites?
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:54 pm
Hope you can advise me on this.
Got the Web Filtering up and running at the Pic Mobert school and have run into one thing that I hope you can assist me on.
I have sites blocked via a blacklist entry such as:
*facebook*
You enter in http://www.facebook.com and the denial page comes up. Some of the students have found a work-a-round and by adding in an “s†so the URL now reads https://www.facebook.com this now loads up facebook and the denial page does not come up. They have by-passed the web filtering software on a few other sites as well by adding in the “sâ€.
I had assumed a blacklist entry using the *facebook* wild card would block any site with “facebook†in the address bar, but obviously not so.
I cannot block all secure sites as the business logs into secure sites for their on-line banking and on-line secure training courses.
I am not sure exactly the best approach to block this kind of user action?
Got the Web Filtering up and running at the Pic Mobert school and have run into one thing that I hope you can assist me on.
I have sites blocked via a blacklist entry such as:
*facebook*
You enter in http://www.facebook.com and the denial page comes up. Some of the students have found a work-a-round and by adding in an “s†so the URL now reads https://www.facebook.com this now loads up facebook and the denial page does not come up. They have by-passed the web filtering software on a few other sites as well by adding in the “sâ€.
I had assumed a blacklist entry using the *facebook* wild card would block any site with “facebook†in the address bar, but obviously not so.
I cannot block all secure sites as the business logs into secure sites for their on-line banking and on-line secure training courses.
I am not sure exactly the best approach to block this kind of user action?