Hi All

I am doing a lab which asks to complete the following:

- Configure ASA1 for HTTP URL filtering for all users on the inside using a
WebSense server located at 10.0.0.100.
- In the case that the filtering server is down all HTTP requests should be
allowed.
- Ensure that users accessing websites via external proxies on port 8080
are blocked by this policy.

My answer was

url-server (outside) vendor websense host 10.0.0.100
filter url http 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 allow proxy-block
filter url http 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 allow proxy-block

It seems I don't understand the usage of the proxy block command as the
solution gave the answer as

url-server (outside) vendor websense host 10.0.0.100
filter url http 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 allow
filter url 8080 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 proxy-block

I was under the impression that using the proxy block option as I did would
allow normal HTTP connections for the traffic from any source networks to
any destination be checked against the external filtering server but block
this same traffic if it is using a proxy. It seems from the solution
however that the proxy block option is used by itself to identify a source
and destination network and a port (8080 in this case) to apply a blanket
deny on all matching traffic.

It would seem easier t me to just allow HTTP traffic in an ACL and deny all
other traffic (inc 8080) in this case though I understand this is not how
the question is wanting it to be done.

Considering I can't really test this too easily as I don't have a websense
server can anyone confirm, deny or clarify my observations?

Thanks
Ben
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