Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S160 User Guide
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Cisco IronPort AsyncOS 7.1 for Web User Guide
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Chapter 16 URL Filters
Warning Users and Allowing Them to Continue
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Enable the site content ratings feature and warn users that access adult
content instead of blocking them. For more information on the site content
ratings feature, see
content instead of blocking them. For more information on the site content
ratings feature, see
When users access a URL that is configured to warn and continue, they initially
see an IronPort notification page with a warning about accessing sites of this
category or content. The end-user URL filtering warning page includes the
following elements:
see an IronPort notification page with a warning about accessing sites of this
category or content. The end-user URL filtering warning page includes the
following elements:
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Default warning text provided by IronPort
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Custom text provided by the Web Security appliance administrator (optional)
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Notification code listing the invoked Access Policy and the URL category
being warned or the safe browsing scanning verdict.
being warned or the safe browsing scanning verdict.
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A hypertext link to the originally requested URL
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.
name available, and tracked by IP address if no user name is available.
When you use the warn and continue feature, you can configure the following
settings that affect the end-user URL filtering warning page:
settings that affect the end-user URL filtering warning page:
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Time Between Warning. The Time Between Warning determines how often
the Web Proxy displays the end-user URL filtering warning page for each
URL category per user. Once a user clicks the continue link on the end-user
URL filtering warning page, the Web Proxy considers that user to have
acknowledged the warning for the time you enter for the Time Between
Warning. This setting applies to users tracked by username and users tracked
by IP address. You can specify any value from 30 to 2678400 seconds (one
month). Default is 1 hour (3600 seconds).
the Web Proxy displays the end-user URL filtering warning page for each
URL category per user. Once a user clicks the continue link on the end-user
URL filtering warning page, the Web Proxy considers that user to have
acknowledged the warning for the time you enter for the Time Between
Warning. This setting applies to users tracked by username and users tracked
by IP address. You can specify any value from 30 to 2678400 seconds (one
month). Default is 1 hour (3600 seconds).
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Custom message. The custom message is text you enter that appears on every
end-user URL filtering warning page. You might want to include text for the
organization’s acceptable use policies, or include a link to a page that details
the acceptable use policies. You can include some simple HTML tags to
format the text. For example, you can change the color and size of the text, or
make it italicized. See
end-user URL filtering warning page. You might want to include text for the
organization’s acceptable use policies, or include a link to a page that details
the acceptable use policies. You can include some simple HTML tags to
format the text. For example, you can change the color and size of the text, or
make it italicized. See
more information.
Configure these settings on the Security Services > End-User Notification page.
For more information, see
For more information, see