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Custom URL Category with Wildcards

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Hello

I have a question.

                              www.example.com     

                           _________|_________

                           |                               |

www.example.com/sales-team          www.example.com/marketing-team

My customer want function below

The sales team access "www.example.com" and "www.example.com/sales-team" , don't access "www.example.com/marketing-team"

So I create "www.example.com" and "www.example.com/sales-team" in customer url category and security rule.

But The sales team access all URI path by "www.example.com" (include "www.example.com/marketing-team")

Do you know anyone access only "www.example.com"???? don't access sub URI path??

What wildcards do I use???

Please, could someone help me?

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L6 Presenter

According to adminguide:

"

Block and allow lists support wildcard patterns. The following characters are considered separators:

.

/

?

&

=

;

+

Every substring that is separated by the characters listed above is considered a token. A token can be any number of ASCII characters that does not contain any separator character or *. For example, the following patterns are valid:

*.yahoo.com                              (Tokens are: "*", "yahoo" and "com")

www.*.com                              (Tokens are: "www", "*" and "com")

www.yahoo.com/search=*      (Tokens are: "www", "yahoo", "com", "search", "*")

The following patterns are invalid because the character “*” is not the

only character in the token.

ww*.yahoo.com

www.y*.com

"

* is considered wildcard but I cant find of any list that states if there are other characters with special features. I assume the + above doesnt mean "one or many" as with regexp.

One thing to test is if you set this up as:

1) Deny "www.example.com/*"

2) Allow "www.example.com"

But that would break probably everything with the site :smileysilly:

So you would probably need to construct it as (if above works and you can only reach the root):

1) Allow "www.example.com/pics/*", "www.example.com/scripts/*"

2) Deny "www.example.com/*"

3) Allow "www.example.com"

Regarding your sales vs marketing team:

1) Deny User: Sales, "www.example.com/marketing-team"

2) Deny User: Marketing, "www.example.com/sales-team"

3) Allow User: Sales and Marketing, "www.example.com"

However note that some sites uses CDN's or for that matter suddently alter their URI's etc which gives that if "www.example.com/sales-team" changes into "www.example.com/sale-team" and you didnt uptime your filters the marketing will be able to reach the sale-team stuff.

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