Robert, Work is using a service called Smartfilter from Secure Computing. It categorizes mostly by site but does both site and IP address. It also categorizes by sections of sites but not necessarily individual pages. Also, each site may have up to three categories.
For example (and this is just hypothetical) http://theonion.com may be categorized as news, humor, profanity http://theonion.com/downloads/ may be categorized as media downloads http://theonion.com/article/nastymalware.aspx might be catagorized as malicous/malware We may block profanity and malware so we would block two of the three sites above even though we allow news and humor (as examples). Hope that helps. Craig On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > In other words, is our proxy blocking based on IP address or based on > content? Good question. I don't know. I'm guessing that's it is > based on IP address because even if I put in a random URI path, I get > a blocked message rather than a 404 message: > > <quote> > You cannot access the following Web address: > http://www.theonion.com/asdfasdfasdfasdf > > The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: Profanity > </quote> > > Of course, it's entirely possible that The Onion's 404 message > contains profanity. :) > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Sean Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I didn't see any profanity on the page. However, the word "porn" is > > used, but it's in an image. Is The Onion completely blocked? > > > > Sean > > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > >> I chopped off the reason: > >> > >> The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: > Profanity > >> > >> Are you sending links that are NSFW? :) > >> > >> Regards, > >> - Robert > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
