topic URL Filtering with wildcards in General Topics https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/url-filtering-with-wildcards/m-p/4033#M2980 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Will using "*.youtube.com" cover access to www.youtube.com, youtube.com and all other possible combinations?</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:09:45 GMT tedjscott 2011-09-07T19:09:45Z URL Filtering with wildcards https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/url-filtering-with-wildcards/m-p/4033#M2980 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Will using "*.youtube.com" cover access to www.youtube.com, youtube.com and all other possible combinations?</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:09:45 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/url-filtering-with-wildcards/m-p/4033#M2980 tedjscott 2011-09-07T19:09:45Z Re: URL Filtering with wildcards https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/url-filtering-with-wildcards/m-p/4034#M2981 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The dot would be a delimiter. So "*.youtube.com" would not automatically include just "youtube.com". So you would need both to account for both youtube.com and www.youtube.com in your allow/block list.</P><P></P><P>-Richard</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:37:09 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/url-filtering-with-wildcards/m-p/4034#M2981 Retired Member 2011-09-08T05:37:09Z Re: URL Filtering with wildcards https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/url-filtering-with-wildcards/m-p/4035#M2982 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You need a specific and a wildcard entry for the website:</P><P></P><P>youtube.com</P><P>*.youtube.com</P><P></P><P>The first will affect access to plain youtube.com, the last will affect &lt;whatever&gt;.youtube.com</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:00:05 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/url-filtering-with-wildcards/m-p/4035#M2982 mivaldi 2014-07-31T22:00:05Z