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Need to allow dropbox sharable url and rest of everything block

RAM462668 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:34:15 GMT

Hello ,

we got one request from user that he required only access sepcific sharable url only and rest of dropbox traffic blocked . Please help with this, as user have some pdf which need to download with dropbox specific url (that dropbox url shared by vendor)

Re: Need to allow dropbox sharable url and rest of everything block

EricRiveraUHC — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:00:04 GMT

Most likely you will need SSL Decryption enabled. Without that you wont be able to see all of the URL information needed. If you do have SSL Decryption enabled, you can create a custom URL category using the exact URL that you want to allow, then create a URL Filtering profile that 'alerts' on that category and then apply that profile to whatever security policy controls internet access.

Obviously this is a high level overview of the process but without SSL decryption you wont be able to get that level of granularity.

Re: Need to allow dropbox sharable url and rest of everything block

ram_dixit — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:30:58 GMT

we are using this SSL decyrptino and follow the same step but its not work becuase when open the dropbox.com there is lots of html css page also require to whitelist like - w3school , etc.

so how can allowed those website or is there any method to take care of this

Re: Need to allow dropbox sharable url and rest of everything block

JayGolf — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 05:28:55 GMT

Hi Guys,

I cant think of an easy way to accomplish this. It will take a lot of trial and error to get to allowing a specific dropbox URL vs allowing dropbox. I would recommend creating policies and testing out the already created dropbox applications. If you find the applications created do not filter your needs correctly, you can try running a packet capture and creating a custom application .

Good Luck! Please keep us posted on how testing goes.