14.4  URL Groups
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14.4  URL Groups

URL groups enable the administrator to define HTTP rules easily (see chapter 12.2  URL Rules). For example, to disable access to a group of Web pages, you can simply define a URL group and assign permissions to the URL group, rather than defining permissions to each individual URL rule. The URL groups can be also cascaded.

URL groups can be defined in the Configuration / Definitions / URL Groups section.

URL Groups

Figure 14.9. URL Groups


Matching fields next to names can be either checked to activate or unchecked to disable. This way you can deactivate group items with no need to remove them and to define them again.

Note

The default WinRoute installation already includes predefined URL groups:

  • Ads/Banners — common URLs of pages that contain advertisements, banners, etc.

  • Search engines — top Internet search engines.

  • Windows Updates — URL of pages requested for automatic updates of Windows.

These URL groups are used in predefined URL rules (see chapter 12.2  URL Rules). WinRoute administrators can use predefined groups in their custom rules or/and edit them if needed.

Click on the Add button to display a dialog where a new group can be created or a new URL can be added to existing groups.

URL group definition

Figure 14.10. URL group definition


Name

Name of the group to which a new item will be added. This option enables the administrator to:

  • select a group to which the item will be added,

  • add a name to create a new group to which the item will be included.

Type

The type of the new item — a URL or a URL group (the groups can be cascaded).

URL / URL Group

The URL or the URL group that will be added to the group (depending on the selected item type).

A URL can be specified as follows:

  • full address of a server, a document or a web page without protocol specification (http://),

  • use substrings with the special * and ? characters. An asterisk stands for any number of characters, a question-mark represents one character.

Examples:

  • www.kerio.com/index.html — a particular page

  • www.* — all URL addresses starting with www. www.*

  • www.kerio.com — all URLs at the www.kerio.com server (this string is equal to the www.kerio.com/* string)

  • *sex* — all URL addresses containing the sex string

  • *sex??.cz* — all URL addresses containing such strings as sexxx.cz, sex99.cz, etc.

Description

Any description of the item (comments and notes for the administrator).

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