11.4  User preferences
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11.4  User preferences

The Preferences tab allows setting of custom web content filtering and preferred language for the web interface. If user account is created in the WinRoute's internal database (see chapter 15  User Accounts and Groups), user can use preferences also to change password.

Content filtering options

The upper section of the page enables to permit or deny particular items of web pages.

Customized Web objects filtering

Figure 11.9. Customized Web objects filtering


Content filter options

If the checkbox under a filter is enabled, this feature will be available (it will not be blocked by the firewall).

If a certain feature is disabled in the parameters of a user account (see chapter 15.1  Viewing and definitions of user accounts), a corresponding item within this page is inactive (user cannot change settings of the item). Users are only allowed to make the settings more restrictive. In other words, users cannot enable an HTML item denied by the administrators for themselves.

  • Java applets <applet> HTML tag blocking

  • ActiveX — Microsoft ActiveX features (this technology enables, for example, execution of applications at client hosts)

    This option blocks <object> and <embed> HTML tags

  • Scripts — <script> HTML tag blocking (commands of JavaScript, VBScript, etc.)

  • Pop-up windows — automatic opening of new windows in the browser (usually advertisements)

    This option will block the window.open() method in JavaScript.

  • Cross-domain referer — blocking of the Referer items in HTTP headers.

    This item includes pages that have been viewed prior to the current page. The Cross-domain referer option blocks the Referer item in case this item does not match the required server name.

    Cross-domain referer blocking protects users' privacy (the Referer item can be monitored to determine which pages are opened by a user).

Save settings

To save and activate settings, click on this button.

Editing user password

The middle section of the Preferences page allows setting of user password.

Editing user password

Figure 11.10. Editing user password


To change a password, enter the current user password, new password, and the new password confirmation into the appropriate text fields. Save the new password with the Change password button.

Warning

Passwords can be changed only if the user is configured in the WinRoute internal database (see chapter 15.1  Viewing and definitions of user accounts). If another authentication method used, the WinRoute Firewall Engine will not be allowed to change the password. In such a case, the Change password section is not even displayed in the Preferences page.

Web Interface Language Preferences

WinRoute's Web Interface is available in various languages. In lower section of the Preferences tab, it is possible to set language for the web interface.

Setting language preferences of the web interface

Figure 11.11. Setting language preferences of the web interface


The second (the default) option is automatic selection of language in accordance with preferences set in the client's web browser. This option exists in all modern web browsers. English will be used if no preferred language is available .

In the latest WinRoute, the Web interface is available in English, Spanish, Czech, Slovak and Russian.

Note

Language settings affect also the format of displaying date and numbers in the web interface.

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