Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S160 User Guide

You can configure the Web Security appliance to redirect traffic originally destined for a URL in a 
custom URL category to a location you specify. This allows you to redirect traffic at the appliance 
instead of at the destination server. You can redirect traffic for a custom Access Policy group or the 
Global Policy Group

To redirect traffic you must define at least one custom URL category.

Choose Web Security Manager > Access Policies.

Click the link under the URL Categories column for an Access Policy group or the Global Policy Group.

In the Custom URL Category Filtering section, click Select Custom Categories.

In the Select Custom Categories for this Policy dialog box, choose Include in policy for the custom 
URL category you want to redirect.

Click Apply.

Click the Redirect column for the custom category you want to redirect.

Enter the URL to which you want to redirect traffic in the Redirect To field for the custom category.

Submit and Commit Changes.

Beware of infinite loops when you configure the appliance to redirect traffic.

When you redirect traffic, the access log entry for the originally requested website has an ACL tag that 
starts with REDIRECT_CUSTOMCAT. Later in the access log (typically the next line) appears the entry 
for the website to which the user was redirected. 

The reports displayed on the Reporting tab display redirected transactions as “Allowed.”

You can warn users that a site does not meet the organization’s acceptable use policies. Users are tracked 
in the access log by user name if authentication has made a user name available, and tracked by IP 
address if no user name is available.

You can warn and allow users to continue using one of the following methods:

Choose the Warn action for a URL category in an Access Policy group or