By using proxy server, you route all http traffic through a http proxy
server. I too did the same way, as you did. I feel, both are right.


With regards
Kings
CCNA,CCSP,CCNP,CCIP,CCIE 35914 (Security)

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Ben Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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