User guide

Using Web Rules
Chapter 16: Using Web Content Filtering 567
Using Web Rules
You can block or allow access to specific Web pages, by defining Web rules.
Note: Web rules affect outgoing traffic only and cannot be used to allow or limit
access from the Internet to internal Web servers.
The Safe@Office appliance processes Web rules in the order they appear in the Web Rules
table, so that rule 1 is applied before rule 2, and so on. This enables you to define
exceptions to rules, by placing the exceptions higher up in the Web Rules table.
For example, if you want to block all the pages of a particular Web site, except a specific
page, you can create a rule blocking access to all of the Web site's pages and move the rule
down in the Web Rules table. Then create a rule allowing access to the desired page and
move this rule to a higher location in the Web Rules table than the first rule. In the figure
below, the general rule is rule number 2, and the exception is rule number 1.