Blocking Twitter.com

Products

• Advanced Secure Gateway Software - ASG
• ProxySG Software - SGOS

Issue/Introduction

To block the Twitter web site, add two rules to block:

• Requests going to twitter.com
• Requests going elsewhere with a referrer containing twitter.com

 

Resolution

In the Visual Policy Manager:

1. Create a new Web Access Layer.
2. Set up rule one as follows:
   • Source: Any
   • Destination: twitter.com
   • Action: Deny
3. Set up a second rule in the same layer as follows:
   • Source: Request Header Referrer containing twitter.com
   • Destination: Any
   • Action: Deny
4. Install policy.

Using Content Policy Language (CPL), add the following code to the local policy file:

   url.domain="twitter.com" Deny

   request.header.Referrer="twitter.com" Deny