Policy installation Warning: "URL host has a leading dot that will be ignored"

Products

• SG-VA
• ProxySG Software - SGOS
• ISG Proxy

Issue/Introduction

During policy installation following Warning may appear:

Warning: URL host has a leading dot that will be ignored: '.ru'
vpm-cpl:1234:   url.domain=".ru"

 

Environment

• Edge SWG

Cause

Adding dot "." at the beginning of url.domain CPL code is invalid.

URL Host with leading dot "." will be ignored.

 

 

Resolution

Leading dot "." can be dropped.

Similar example can be rewritten to:

<proxy>
url.domain="ru" Deny

 

Above example will deny websites from domains which end with ".ru"