Advanced Filters 1
Block malicious URLs discovered by FortiSandbox
To use this feature, you must be registered to a FortiSandbox and be connected to it.
This feature blocks malicious URLs that FortiSandbox finds.
To enable this feature in the GUI:
- Go to Security Profiles > Web Filter and go to the Static URL Filter
- Enable Block malicious URLs discovered by FortiSandbox.
To enable this feature in the CLI:
config webfilter profile edit “webfilter” config web set blacklist enable end
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Allow websites when a rating error occurs
If you don’t have a FortiGuard license but you have enabled services that need a FortiGuard license, such as FortiGuard filter, then you’ll get a rating error message.
Use this setting to allow access to websites that return a rating error from the FortiGuard Web Filter service.
To enable this feature in the GUI:
- Go to Security Profiles > Web Filter and go to the Rating Options
- Enable Allow websites when a rating erroroccurs.
To enable this feature in the CLI:
config webfilter profile edit “webfilter” config ftgd-wf set options error-allow
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Rate URLs by domain and IP address
If you enable this feature, in addition to only sending domain information to FortiGuard for rating, FortiGate always sends both the URL domain name and the TCP/IP packet’s IP address (except for private IP addresses) to FortiGuard for the rating.
FortiGuard server might return a different category of IP address and URL domain. If they are different, FortiGate uses the rating weight of the IP address or domain name to determine the rating result and decision. This rating weight is hard-coded in FortiGate.
For example, if we use a spoof IP of Google as www.irs.gov, FortiGate will send both the IP address and domain name to FortiGuard to get the rating. In this example, we get two different ratings, one is search engine and portals which belongs to the IP of Google, another is government and legal organizations which belongs to www.irs.gov. As the search engine and portals has a higher weight than government and legal organizations, this traffic will be rated as search engine and portals and not rated as government and legal organizations.
To enable this feature in the GUI:
- Go to Security Profiles > Web Filter and go to the Rating Options
- Enable Rate URLs by domain and IP address.
To enable this feature in the CLI:
config webfilter profile edit “webfilter” config ftgd-wf set options rate-server-ip
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Block invalid URLs
Use this feature to block websites when their SSL certificate CN field does not contain a valid domain name.
For example, this option blocks URLs which contains spaces. If there is a space in the URL, it must be written as: http://www.example.com/space%20here.html.
To enable this feature in the GUI:
- Go to Security Profiles > Web Filter and go to the Static URL Filter
- Enable Block invalid URLs .
To enable this feature in the CLI:
config webfilter profile edit “webfilter” set options block-invalid-url
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Rate images by URL
This feature enable FortiGate to retrieve ratings for individual images in addition to websites. Images in a blocked category are not displayed even if they are part of a site in an allowed category. Blocked images are replaced with blank placeholders. These image file types are rated: GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF.
This feature requires a valid FortiGuard license, otherwise rating errors will occur. By default, this feature is enabled.
For example, if the Other Adult Materials category is blocked, before enabling Rate images by URL, the image is not blocked:
After enabling Rate images by URL, images in the Other Adult Materials category are blocked. For example:
To enable this feature in the GUI:
- Go to Security Profiles > Web Filter and go to the Rating Options
- Enable Rate images by URL.
To enable this feature in the CLI:
config webfilter profile edit “webfilter” config ftgd-wf unset options set rate-image-urls enable
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