Thanks for the details, Craig. I also had a look through Secure Computing's wikipedia page[1] and a more general category[2]. From what that says and from what you describe, it appears that SmartFilter allows/blocks content based solely on URL. Is that correct? Or does SmartFilter do on-the-fly content filtering also?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Computing [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-control_software Regards, - Robert On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Craig Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
